The flood has worsened in the northern part of Sabah with more victims evacuated yesterday.

As of 6pm yesterday, 616 victims from 190 families in three districts and sub-districts of Kota Marudu were moved to seven temporary relief centres.

Sabah Disaster Management Committee Secretariat head Colonel Mulliadi Al-Hamdi Ladin said 346 people from 82 families, all from Kampung Beliajung, were being sheltered at the Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Taritipan hall in Kota Marudu.

The other flood relief centre in the district is the hall of the Damai Agriculture Training Centre, where 35 people from 25 families from four villages, namely, Kg Damai, Kg Tarangkapas, Kg Mangkawasing and Kg Boruwol, are housed.

In the sub-district of Paitan, two relief centres were opened, in Kg Binsulung hall, where 39 victims from 11 families from the kampung itself are being sheltered. Two families of eight people from Kg Batangon are housed in the hall of Kg Kubambangan.

Three relief centres were opened in the Pitas district where 94 victims from 45 families of six villages, Kg Kabatasan Laut, Kg Sibaung, Kg Pondoi, Kg Sinasak Batu, Kg Kerasik, Kg Seri Gaman, were moved to the hall of SK Pekan Pitas 2.

Fifty-nine victims from 18 families of Kg Rukom Ulu were given shelter at the hall of SK Rukom, while 35 people from seven families of Kg Salimpodon Darat were housed at the SK Salimpodon hall.

Mulliadi, who is also the Sabah Civil Defense director, said that the water level at two rivers in Pitas had remained consistently above the danger level; water in Sungai (Sg) Kebatasan rose to and remained at 6.53 metres, well over its 6.0 metres danger level mark, while Sg Bengkoka’s water remained at 4.3 metres, well over the 4.0 metres mark.

Sungai Bongon and Sg Bandau in Kota Marudu had remained consistently at the danger levels of 7.42 metres and 6.9 metres respectively.

In other districts, water level at Sungai Rampai in Kg Korina, Kudat continued to rise well beyond its danger level of 2.2 metres, similar to the water level at Sungai Labuk in Beluran, where it had reached 2.20 metres.

Meanwhile, 14 schools, including a secondary school, in the districts of Beluran and Pitas will close today due to floods.

Sabah education director Datuk Maimunah Suhaibul said the seven schools that will be closed today in Beluran district are Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Simpangan, SK Sungai Sungai, SK Binsulung, SK Lubang Buaya, SK Tangkarason, SK Golong and SK Bawang.

In Pitas district, among the schools that will be closed today are SK Sosop, SK Dallas, SK Kusilat, SK Pantai and SK Salimpodon.

“Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Pitas 2 will also be closed tomorrow,” she said in a brief statement through WhatsApp last night.

Source:
courtesy of THE BORNEO POST

by Borneo Post

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