Flooded with haunting memories


Painful memory: Taman Sri Muda was one of the worst-hit areas in the severe flood which displaced about 14,000 people in Selangor last year. – FAIHAN GHANI/The Star.

IT wasn’t how he expected to get home after work one day – swimming across city roads that were flooded with muddy, four-metre high water.

But that’s exactly what happened to S. Rao, a 34-year-old resident from Taman Sri Muda in Shah Alam, one year ago today.

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