KUANTAN, Dec 6 — Three people were confirmed to have drowned in Pahang even as the number of flood evacuees began to drop this evening.
The bodies of Pekan Umno committee member Jamali Jani, 45, and his son, Mohd Nazli, 17, were found today after they had gone missing on Wednesday when they fell into the floodwaters in Sungai Isap.
Mohamed Alif Khalid, 21, drowned on Wednesday while fishing alone at Sungai Kampung Sepial in Kuala Tembeling, Jerantut.
A spokesman of the Pahang Police flood operations room said the number of evacuees had dropped to 32,808 from 34,235 in the morning.
He said the evacuees were from eight districts, namely Kuantan, Pekan, Rompin, Maran, Jerantut, Lipis, Temerloh and Bera.
“Kuantan district continues to have the highest number of evacuees, at 27,385. They are being housed at 48 relief centres,” he told Bernama.
The spokesman said Rompin district had 1,167 evacuees at 14 relief centres; Pekan, 3,218 at 18 centres; Maran, 49 at two centres; Jerantut, 472 at 11 centres; Lipis, 33 at two centres; Temerloh, 419 at five centres and Bera, 65 at five centres.
Several stretches of road remain closed, among them Jalan Sungai Lembing-Kuantan at Km28, Jalan Kuantan-Segamat at Km72, Jalan Kuantan-Rompin at Km62 and Jalan Temerloh-Bahau at Km14. — Bernama
