Malaysian Man's Call Of Nature Saves Lives

A Malaysian man's urge to answer the call of nature has made him a local hero after he saved more than 100 people from being buried alive when their homes collapsed.

The 57-year-old Renjis Empati was walking to the toilet outside his communal longhouse in the early hours when he noticed his kitchen collapsing.

He quickly shouted to alert residents in the 14-door longhouse, as well as nine other homes in the village on Borneo island.

"I could feel the earth trembling and saw the longhouse collapse into a sinkhole", said Renjis. Who is left only with the shorts he was wearing. "All my belongings, including jars passed down from my ancestors, are lost".

"If it were not for him, most of us would be dead by now," said a fellow longhouse resident. Longhouses have a number of family apartments under one roof which are joined by a common passageway.years old," she said.

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