A TOTAL of 37 deaths and 10 missing person reports were recorded at flood areas throughout Malaysia as of last night.
From the total, five deaths were reported in the past 24 hours involving four adults and one child while two victims are still missing, according to Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.
He said 68,341 flood victims from 18,080 families were recorded at 396 relief centres (PPS) in seven states with Pahang being the most affected state this time.
Apart from Pahang, six other states include Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Kelantan and Negeri Sembilan.
In this regard, he said 137 roads are still closed due to floods in four states with 120 locations in Pahang, Selangor (12 locations), Negeri Sembilan (two locations) and Kelantan (three locations).
Moreover, based on information from the Department of Irrigation and Drainage as at 2.30am today, 23 rivers have been placed under danger and warning levels.
“The danger level involved 13 locations with nine rivers in Pahang, on each in Selangor and Johor and two in Kelantan,” he said in his daily media conference on Ops Banjir at Taman Sri Muda in Shah Alam.
The rivers that are currently at warning level include one each in Selangor and Johor and two each in Pahang, Kelantan, Melaka and Sarawak.
For death cases received from flood affected areas, Acryl Sani said police are still waiting for the post-mortem on the cause of death.
When asked why the total deaths differs between the authorities and state government, he said every type of death must be reported to police in accordance to the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act.
“Each death reported to police will be recorded as a statistic received … and a paper will be opened for each death called the Sudden Death Report,” he said.
At the same time, he said, a total of 1,081 police officers and personnel as well as 880 civil servants who serve with the Royal Malaysia Police were affected by the floods nationwide.
“Meanwhile, until two days ago, I received reports of seven stations being affected by the flood disaster,” he added. – Dec 23, 2021
