Mercy flight for scalded orang asli girl

26 Jun 2017 / 20:34 H.

GUA MUSANG: The Fire and Rescue Department airlifted a five-year-old orang asli girl, who had been scalded by hot water, from her village in the interior of Kelantan to the Gua Musang Hospital today.
The department's Air Unit public relations officer at the Subang airbase, Mohd Farhan Marzuki, said the mercy flight was made with an AW139 helicopter piloted by Capt Leong Cheong Meng and co-pilot Mohamad Muizz Md Pisar at about 3pm.
Yaran Jali was flown from her village, Kampung Chemal, Pos Belatim, to the compound of the Gua Musang Fire and Rescue Station, he said. The helicopter had taken off from the Bertam airbase in Penang.
The girl was scalded by hot water last Wednesday and was injured in the left eye, forehead and part of her head, he said.
Yaran was accompanied on the flight by her father, Jali Kat, 40. — Bernama

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