East Coast floods: More relief centres opened as numbers of evacuees rise in K'tan, Terengganu


Flood victim Zahiyah Yahya, 46, wading through flood waters as she takes some of her belongings to a relief centre in Kemaman.

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Terengganu and Kelantan continued to record an increase in the number of flood evacuees while more temporary relief centres (PPS) were also opened as at 5pm Saturday (Dec 19).

In TERENGGANU, the number of evacuees rose to 5,776 people from 1,478 families at 4pm Saturday compared to 4,094 people from 996 families at 7am.

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