Sabah floods: Number of evacuees rises to 6,732

Residents in Beaufort wading through floodwaters on Friday (Feb 27). The number of flood evacuees in Sabah has risen to 6,732 as at Saturday (Feb 28) morning. - Photo: Bernama

KOTA KINABALU: The number of flood evacuees in Sabah rose to 6,732 from 2,293 families as at 8am Saturday (Feb 28) from 6,663 from 2,331 families Friday (Feb 27).

The State Disaster Management Committee Secretariat said, in a statement, that Tenom recorded an upward trend in the number of evacuees, namely 4,500 people from 1,507 families.