The number of flood evacuees in Selangor rose to 1,248 people from 335 families on Friday morning, up from 1,120 on Thursday night, according to the Social Welfare Department’s disaster information portal.
As of 8.41am, 10 temporary relief centres were open in three districts in the state.
Kuala Selangor remained the worst-hit district, with 849 people from 220 families at five centres after a new one was opened at SK Parit Mahang in Jeram on Friday. The others are SK Desa Aman, SK Jaya Setia and Sekolah Agama Batu 8 Ijok in Ijok, and SK Dato’ Maharaja Lela in Jeram.
In Shah Alam, 361 people from 83 families were housed at four centres, while 38 people from 32 families were at the Dewan Masjid Al-Taqwa hall in Bukit Kapar, Klang.
The portal also showed a relief centre opened in Sik, Kedah, on Thursday for six people, bringing the national total to 1,254 evacuees at 11 centres. Of these, 539 were children and 31 were babies, while 63 were senior citizens and 29 were people with disabilities.