Number Of Flood Victims Rises To Over 45 000 In Johor

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The flood situation remains critical in Parit Sulong in Batu Pahat. (Bernama pic)KUALA LUMPUR: The number of flood victims in Johor has increased, while a drop was recorded in Melaka and the situation remained unchanged in Pahang as of 8am today.
In JOHOR, the number of flood victims rose to 45,218, compared with 43,856 recorded at 8pm yesterday. They have been evacuated to 174 relief centres in six districts.
The state disaster management committee (JPBN), in a statement, said Batu Pahat was the worst-hit district, with 38,134 evacuees at relief centres, followed by Muar (4,057) and Tangkak (2,424).
Nine rivers still exceed the danger level, including Sungai Batu Pahat at the Bekok Dam (Batu Pahat) at 19.79m; Sembrong Dam in Sungai Sembrong (Batu Pahat) at 12.01m and Sungai Muar in Bukit Kepong (Muar) at 4.63m.
Eight districts in the state are forecast to have sunny skies this morning, while rain is expected in Mersing and Kluang.
In PAHANG, the welfare department’s InfoBencana application reported that the flood situation remained unchanged with 1,804 people still housed at 12 centres.
Sungai Keratong in the district is still above the danger level but on a declining trend, according to the website publicinfobanjir.water.gov.my.
In MELAKA, the number of people evacuated in Jasin dropped to 448 compared with 484 recorded last night and all of them were housed in five relief centres.
A total of 171 people were placed at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Batu Gajah; 134 at SK Parit Penghulu; 32 at SK Seri Mendapat; 61 at SK Sungai Rambai; and 57 at SK Parit Gantong. - FMT

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