KUALA LUMPUR: At least five people were killed, and over 70,000 shifted to evacuation centres in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered devastating floods inundated the country’s north, authorities informed on Wednesday.
Over 39,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters in neighbouring Terengganu, while over 31,000 people have fled their homes in Kelantan state after flooding began over the weekend, Malaysia’s state-owned Bernama news agency reported.
Deaths from the flood in Malaysia
Emergency services officials reported that five people had been killed in the flooding.
“The water levels reached almost 10 feet (three metres),” Muhammad Ameenudin Badrul Hisyam from Kuala Krai district in Kelantan told a foreign news agency as he cleared debris from his house after a nearby river overflowed and forced his family members to flee.
Malaysia’s local media reported that four people were killed in Kelantan on Monday when three sisters were electrocuted while wading in the floodwaters and a 15-month-old boy drowned.
The fifth victim was a two-year-old girl swept away by strong currents in Terengganu on Sunday. – AFP/APP
