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Thieves steal from traders during storm

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KANGAR: About 20 traders at the Dataran 350 here lost their goods either to thieves or to the weather in the chaos caused by strong winds and heavy rains that brought down their tents, Friday night.

Worse still, some of the traders’ earnings from sales conducted over the past few days in conjunction with Aidiladha celebration were also believed to have been stolen. 

Perfume and clothes trader Hazdi Zairi Abd Razak, 30, told Bernama yesterday that there was no time to save his goods and he believed they were stolen by unscrupulous individuals.

His colleague Nordin Harun, 53, from Kuala Perlis, said he suffered about RM15,000 in losses when clothes and children’s toys from his stall were damaged by the rain and wind.

Nordin recalled that he was attending to a customer Friday night at about 8pm, when all of a sudden, gusts of strong wind and heavy rain hit the area.

Checks with other traders at the square found about 20 of them suffered losses in the bad weather, said to have been caused by the tail end of Typhoon Lekima. 

Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Department and the Malaysian Civil Defence Force have begun assessing the damage and losses incurred.

It is understood that scores of houses and business premises were damaged, while road accidents also occurred. – Bernama

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