Zaliha: KL flash floods an ‘incident’ and not a ‘disaster’


THE recent flash floods that shut down parts of Kuala Lumpur and even halted morning parliamentary proceedings were not classified as a “disaster” but deemed an “incident”, says Dr Zaliha Mustafa.

“I called for a meeting with the Selangor state disaster committee to get a briefing on real-time operations carried out by the various agencies,” the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) said.

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