KUALA LUMPUR: Universiti Malaya’s geology department has denied a report attributed to one “Dr Sarah Jamal”, stating that no such geologist is employed at the university.
Associate professor Meor Hakif Amir Hassan, head of UM’s geology department, confirmed that no geologist named Sarah Jamal is registered with the Malaysian Board of Geologists.
“The content of the article is not based on facts and is false,” Meor Hakif said in a post on the department’s Facebook page today.
He said the department is exercising caution in commenting on the sinkhole incident at Jalan Masjid India here as the search for the missing woman and investigations by authorities are ongoing.
The denial follows an article, which went viral on social media, allegedly written by a “prominent” UM geologist named Sarah Jamal who claimed a “huge empty cave” existed beneath Kuala Lumpur.