Floods over in Kelantan, all relief centres closed

The situation in Kelantan returned to normal by this evening after being hit by floods for days, with the last relief centre housing 14 evacuees from two families in Kuala Krai closed this afternoon.

Kelantan Malaysia Civil Defence Force director, Zainuddin Hussin said the flood victims were allowed to return home this afternoon.

According to the ebanjir.kelantan.gov.my website, the water levels in most of Kelantan's main rivers were subsiding to the alert or normal level, except for Sungai Golok at Rantau Panjang which had a reading of 9.26 metres, which was above the danger level of 9.00 metres.

In SELANGOR, the number of flood victims housed at three relief centres in Sabak Bernam dropped to 113 as at 5pm from 210 at noon.

A Sabak Bernam District Disaster Operations Room spokesman said 43 evacuees (12 families) were still housed at Dewan Sri Bernam, Sungai Besar and 41 (15 families) at Dewan Parit Baru, Sungai Air Tawar, while the number remained at 29 (eight families) at Dewan Seri Nakhoda, Bagan Nakhoda Omar. -- BERNAMA