The worst floods in a decade in Malaysia leave three dead and force 100,000 to evacuate

MADRID 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least three people have died and almost 100,000 have been forced to leave their homes due to the imminent floods in Malaysia that the meteorological authorities of the Asian country predict, the worst in a decade according to estimates.

The country’s National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) has confirmed that the majority of the approximately 94,778 evacuees so far are residents of Kelantan province, in the north of the country and bordering Thailand.

The neighboring state of Terengganu is the second most affected by number of evacuees, with more than 22,500.

The intensity of the rainfall has motivated the authorities to open a total of 527 temporary assistance centers spread throughout the country, according to NADMA.

Meanwhile, the country’s meteorological services anticipate heavy rains at least until Saturday in eight states of the country, which will bring with them, in the words of the Malaysian deputy prime minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, floods that could be even more serious than those of 2014, when Nearly a quarter of a million people were forced to leave their homes.

For now, as a first shock plan, the Government has deployed more than 82,000 security personnel, as well as rescue boats, four-wheel drive vehicles and helicopters, according to an institutional statement reported by the Malaysian newspaper ‘The Star’.