The 2006 Kampung Pasir landslide was a

landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

that occurred on 31 May 2006, in Kampung Pasir,

Ulu Klang Ulu Kelang (alternately Hulu Kelang, Ulu Klang, or Hulu Klang), is a mukim and a state constituency in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of contine ...

Selangor Selangor ( ; ), also known by the Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the e ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. Two women were killed and two children were feared buried alive in a landslide that flattened three blocks of longhouses in Kampung Pasir, Ulu Klang here. "The 2006 Kampung Pasir disaster highlighted the fact that man-made slopes needed to be built according to guidelines, just like any other infrastructure such as roads and bridges."

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