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PETALING JAYA: Two company directors and six of their workers have been detained by the police due to the recent odor contamination in Sungai Selangor, which caused 1,292 areas to run out of water for a few days.
Selangor CID director Fadzil Ahmat said the company’s two directors, a father and a son aged 62 and 31 respectively, were arrested in Rawang at 11:30 am today.
The six workers arrested were two local men and four immigrants from Nepal, Pakistan and Myanmar.
He said investigators traced the scent to Sungai Gong, a tributary of Sungai Selangor in Rawang.
The source of the contamination is believed to be a company that repairs and sells construction machinery.
“All suspects will be sent to the Selayang Court tomorrow.
“Investigations are being carried out under Section 430 of the Penal Code,” he said today in a statement.
This section deals with “damages caused by damage to irrigation works or by improper diversion of water.”
Nearly 1.2 million Air Selangor households in the Klang Valley experienced unscheduled water supply interruptions on Monday after four Sungai Selangor water treatment plants were closed due to contamination from raw water sources. .
Early last month, another pollution incident in Sungai Gong caused unscheduled water outages for several days, affecting 1.2 million households in 1,292 areas of the Klang Valley.
