GURUN: Firemen have rescued 19 hikers who were stranded on Gunung Jerai last night. One who was injured, was sent to the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani.
Ridzuan Nut Jamudin, head of the Search and Rescue team at the Sungai Petani fire station, said all the hikers were brought down to the SAR command centre at the foothills of the mountain at 3.10am today.
“The climber who was injured, Nor Farah Amira Mohamed Haris, 21, was brought down in a stretcher. She had sprained her ankle,” he told Bernama.
The search for the hikers began at 9.11pm and the search party located them at 11.56pm.
He said the stranded climbers were part of a group of 39, in their 20s and 30s, from a youth club, and that the other 20 had safely made their way down.