'Mini tsunami' from Mount Jerai covers sleepy Kedah villages in mud, kills 3

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Villagers living at the foot of Mount Jerai in Kedah have described a "mini tsunami" gushing down from uphill, sweeping trees and bridges away and blanketing villages in mud.Salwa Md Isa, 34, said she had never seen anything like it in all her years living in Kampung Setoi, a village at the foot of the mountain.“I grew up in this village and this is the first time I’ve seen such an incident. The upstream water rush has happened before but not to such an extent until the bridges and roads collapsed, cars washed away and people dying… I am very scared," she told Bernama.Salwa said the incident happened at 5pm and the water receded after two and a half hours, leaving a trail of destruction.The mini tsunami flooded scores of villages at the foot of the mountain, leaving at least three dead and another three missing.Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor denied l…