INDIAN residents in Bukit Raja, Selangor, are upset after some 50 graves were removed from a Hindu cemetery without prior warning, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The cemetery has been there since 1963 for the Hindu communities living and working in four plantations in the area, said S. Kumaravel, a local resident.
Residents said the cemetery was used until 1988 and that some 2,000 remains were buried there.
Recently, when a highway project was being constructed near there, the estate temple committee wrote to the state government for assistance.
Residents also claimed that a signboard of the graveyard was removed to cover up the intrusion.
Residents and the next of kin, who gathered at the cemetery on Tuesday, demanded the state and Federal Government act urgently on the matter.
> Days after the Entrepreneurs Association of Little India Klang called on Tenaga Nasional Bhd to inspect the existing wiring at the shoplots there, a popular restaurant in the area went up in flames, Makkal Osai reported.
The Chennai Chettinad Restaurant caught fire around midnight on Saturday, almost destroying the whole premises.
Firemen from three fire stations rushed to the scene and managed to prevent the fire from spreading to other shops.
> Found in translation is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
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