IPOH: Buried in earth, Bah Anjang Besar Alang dug frantically with one hand to free himself. “I woke up pinned under a large rock. I couldn’t move my right hand or leg. “After what seemed like an eternity, I finally managed to uncover my head and screamed for help,” the 39-year-old survivor of Sunday’s landslide told reporters at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital here. Bah Anjang Besar, a maintenance worker at Kelab Sultan Ahmad Shah, is being warded for a fractured clavicle and pubic bone. His daughter Faridah, 18, said was listening to the radio in the living room when their brick house was swept away. “People tell me they saw my father being flung out before the house was flattened. “If not for that, I think he would not have survived,” Faridah said at her father’s bedside. Faridah said it had been raining heavily since 5pm on the day of the mishap. She and her brothers managed to make it to their grandmother’s house on higher ground, when the landslide occurred. Perak exco member Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon told reporters at the hospital that Bah Anjang Besar’s condition was stable and he could be discharged soon.

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