'Winter monsoon' floods: Almost 20,000 evacuees in five states as at 1pm Monday (Jan 4)

An aerial view of the floods affecting Kota Tinggi in Johor earlier Monday (Jan 4).

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 19,591 people remained at evacuation centres in five flood-hit states in the peninsula as at 1 pm Monday (Jan 4), according to statistics gleaned from the Social Welfare Department portal.

While the number of evacuees dropped slightly in Johor and Terengganu, it had risen in Pahang, Perak and Kelantan.