Mum braves floods carrying small baby

A mother waded through floods as far as 500 metres carrying her three-month-old baby to escape before being rescued in Hulu Terengganu on Wednesday.

Nurul Nadia Tarmizi, 31, of Kampung Mak Bah, said when the water level rose to her thigh, she had no choice but to wade through the floods with her baby, Aliff Asyraf Wahab.

"My husband had gone to the workshop to repair the car and could not come home by 10.30am.

"Saving household items did not cross my mind. I was focused on saving my baby," she told Bernama when met at SK Pulau Serai flood relief centre.

Nurul said she had to wade 500 metres to reach high ground before coming across a Fire and Rescue Department team and taken to a relief centre in a van.