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Quake on mountain peak kills climbers

By Agencies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | China Daily | Updated: 2015-06-08 07:47

Rescuers on Malaysia's highest peak searched on Sunday for six climbers after recovering 16 dead from a strong earthquake that had trapped scores of trekkers. One survivor said she waited for a rescue helicopter that never came.

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake on Friday sent rocks and boulders raining down the trekking routes on 4,095-meter-high Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island.

Six Singapore primary school students and one teacher were among the 16 dead.

Quake on mountain peak kills climbers

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