‘We fled with only the clothes on our backs’


The ground this family from Kampung La, Jerteh, is sitting on used to be their house. All that’s left now, after days of rain and flooding in the hard-hit village, are a few bricks, gravel and the clothes on their backs.

JERTEH: Sorrowful and heart-rending is the feeling when one witnesses the latest situation in Kampung La here after it was inundated by floodwaters a week ago.

For one family of six, the disaster not only swept away their clothes but their entire house which they had been occupying since a year ago.

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