MELAKA: A motorcycle workshop and 11 houses have been damaged by a storm in Batu Berendam here.
The housing areas affected were Taman Sri Selendang, Kampung Pulau Samak and Taman Mas Merah.
In the incident at about 5.30pm on Saturday, workshop owner Mohd Naim Kidam, 22, said he was in Bachang at the time and rushed home after seeing the weather had changed and thunder started to rumble.
As soon as he arrived at his house in Kampung Pulau Samak, he was surprised to see that the roof of the motorcycle workshop behind his house had been ripped off.
He also said part of the house had been crushed by falling tree branches.
“However, I am grateful because everyone is safe and even my sibling’s wedding feast had finished earlier, before the storm.
“Only one tent was blown away while the roof of my workshop was damaged, but my customers’ motorcycles were not affected,” he said, Bernama reported.
Another victim, Safri Abdul Khalid, said he now had to stay at a nearby surau because the roof of his house was badly damaged after being hit by an 80-year-old cempaka tree.
He said the storm was the worst that he had experienced but he was thankful that his wife and mother were not at home when it happened.
