At least five people were killed and more than 70,000 rushed to evacuation centers in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered floods inundated the country's north, authorities said Wednesday.
Local residents use a boat to cross flooded streets in Pasir Mas in Malaysia’s northern Kelantan state on December 21, 2022. At least five people were killed and over 70,000 rushed to evacuation centers in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered floods inundated large swathes of the country, authorities said December 21.
Local media reported that four people died in Kelantan on Monday when three sisters were electrocuted while wading in the floodwaters and a 15-month-old boy drowned.Additional evacuations took place in the states of Pahang, Johor and Perak, Bernama reported. Floods are an annual phenomenon in the Southeast Asian nation of 33 million people due to the northeast monsoon that brings heavy rain from November to March.
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