A GROUP of Primary 5 students from Rosyth School - 49 pupils and nine teachers - spent more than four hours trapped in Kota Gelanggi Cave Complex, a 150-million-year-old cave complex.
Kota Gelanggi Cave Complex is famous for its unique fauna, flora and rock formations.
At 10am that day, the pupils - boys and girls - and teachers set off caving at Pulau Tawar, a series of seven caves, with a local guide.After trekking for about 300m, the drizzle got heavier, and the teachers decided to turn back.
The group took shelter at the entrance of a dry cave, 200m from their base camp and had lunch inside the cave, waiting for the rain to stop.
But the rain got heavier. And the cave began to flood.
Around 3pm, egged on by worried teachers, the guide requested advice and assistance from Malaysian police and firefighters.
Within half an hour, six firefighters and five policemen arrived at Gua Penyu ('turtle cave' in Malay), the cave they were in.
Using rope, firefighters helped the pupils wade through a waterlogged area to reach their base camp.
By 7pm, the rescue was over. Nobody was hurt.
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