Earlier Rescue workers at Jalan Macalister, here, were faced with problems excavating the five-metre deep crater as continous water flows from a broken sewer pipe, with few suction machines deployed to expel the water out.
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Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng, who visited the site at about 8pm after the mishap, expressed his concern and confirmed that one person was critically injured in the incident.