Sabah on alert for floods and landslides

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is on the alert for floods and landslides following bad weather conditions over the last two days.

Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Yahya Hussin said the state Natural Disaster Relief Committee, was monitoring the water levels at rivers and also landslip-prone areas.

“We are ready to provide whatever assistance should there be floods or any other eventualities,” he said when contacted yesterday.

Meteorologists have forecast heavy rains, winds with speeds of up to 50kph and waves as high as 3m for the next two days in the west coast and interior of Sabah due to a storm in the South China Sea.

State Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Ibnu Suhod said his department had yet to receive any report of floods or landslips despite the heavy rains in the state since Christmas Day.

Source: The Star

Flood Alert

For more updated information on flooded area, river level and rainfall in the various states in Malaysia including Sabah and Sarawak, please visit the following URL:

http://infobanjir.water.gov.my/realtime.htm