Floods Force evacuation of 7,000 more in Malaysia

Seasonal rainfall has been aggravate floods in eastern Sarawak, Malaysia, and forcing the evacuation of more than 7000. Head of the Police Sarawak Terrence Oliver explains, 7,042 residents have ditampung in several evacuation centers, on Monday (12 / 1), after their residence was filled by water since last week.

According to Terrence Oliver, splash rain had let up at this time. However, water is feared flood of mainland and trigger a flood of water due to overflow into the river grow worse and lowland swamp area Monday and Tuesday.

However, the pool is estimated that the flood will subside on Wednesday. Lightning storms and floods usually occur in continuous eastern Malaysia during seasonal rain between November and February.

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Source: AP