Klang’s Little India hit by flash floods after downpour

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Klang’s Little India hit by flash floods after downpour
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Among the affected areas was the royal town's Little India , which was bustling with Deepavali shoppers.

Entrepreneurs Association of Little India Klang president Charles Manickam said the flooding happened very swiftly."But luckily it receded very fast as well," said Manickam. The 2022 Auditor-General's Report on Selangor revealed that, despite mitigation efforts, five out of 10 identified flood-prone hotspots in Klang experienced flooding between one and four times from 2016 to 2022.

Meanwhile, in an interview with The Star in April this year in an article pertaining to floods in Malaysia, USM River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre director Assoc Prof Dr Mohd Remy Rozainy Mohd Arif Zainol said the design of most of the current flood mitigation projects was based on a 100-year rainfall recurrence.

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