IT TOOK Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) several hours to demolish the illegal extensions of 12 shops in Jalan Thambipillay, Brickfields.

Despite giving the shopowners ample time to remove the extension themselves, only one made the effort to comply when the authorities arrived.

DBKL Corporate Planning Department director Khairul Azmir Ahmad told StarMetro that one shoplot owner removed the illegal structure, which was an exhaust fan, on his own accord.