KUALA LUMPUR – The situation in flood-hit areas in Kelantan and Terengganu this morning remains little changed from last night, with 2,074 evacuees at relief centres.
The Golok River in Kelantan is still swollen and stretches of four roads are still closed to light vehicles while the major rivers in Terengganu are back to their normal levels.
A spokesman of the Kelantan flood operations room said the floods in the state were now confined to the Kota Baharu, Pasir Mas and Tumpat districts.
“Eleven relief centres are still open in the three districts, with nine of them in Pasir Mas, the worst-affected district,” he told Bernama.
The spokesman said the level of the Golok River at Rantau Panjang this morning was 10.09 metres, still above the danger point of nine metres.
He also said that stretches of four roads still remain closed to light vehicles in Pasir Mas and Tumpat.
Three stretches of the roads are in Pasir Mas, namely Km10 of Jalan Rantau Panjang-Panglima Bayu; Km1 of Jalan Banggol Kulim Lokasi 2 and Km3 of Jalan Pengkalan Rakit while one stretch is in Tumpat, which is Km3 of Jalan Cabang 4/Kampung Jambu/Meranti, he said.
The floods in Kelantan have claimed the lives of four people. Three other people are missing. They Mohd Alif Rizuan, 15, who was bathing in a river in Machang, Mohd Azman Yusuf, 17, who disappeared in the Golok River, and Mohd Farid Mohd Yusof, 20, who went missing at Kuala Pak Amat beach.
In TERENGGANU, a spokesman of the National Security Council said 107 people were still at a relief centre at Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Guntong in the state this morning, down from the 117 yesterday evening.
A spokesman of the Drainage and Irrigation Department said the levels of the major rivers in the state are back to normal.
At the height of the floods, six of the seven districts in Terengganu were flooded, affecting almost 3,000 people. – BERNAMA
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