KUCHING: Sri Aman’s Air Pollutant Index (API) reading recorded a sudden jump to 402 at 8:25am when it read 371 at around 8.15am.

It now has a reading of 414 at 9am.

Both readings are still within the hazardous category.

This is the second incident where Sri Aman recorded a reading of over 400. On September 17, it recorded a reading of 416 at 6pm.

However, the Department of Environment (DOE) had come forward to clarify that ‘technical difficulties’ with API had caused inaccurate readings at its stations.

It said that they had identified the cause of the technical difficulties and assured that such issues would not happen again.