Kuala Lumpur: Inside the search for woman swallowed by sinkhole

More than 100 rescuers have worked eight days non-stop in search of the missing tourist.

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The incident has gripped Malaysia, with some 110 rescuers working around the clock this past week in search of Vijaya Lakshmi Gali, 48.

But apart from a pair of slippers found in an initial 17-hour search, their efforts have been unsuccessful.

Two divers who entered via a sewer network at 04:00 local time on Friday (21:00 GMT Thursday) were confronted with strong water currents and hard debris, the Fire and Rescue Department said.

The pair, comprising a firefighter and a sewer worker, also had to "lie flat" as the space was narrow, according to the department's director-general Nor Hisham Mohammad.

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