{"id":406402,"date":"2017-09-25T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T04:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-kedah-flood-victims-rise-to-3621\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T04:25:04","slug":"general-kedah-flood-victims-rise-to-3621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-kedah-flood-victims-rise-to-3621\/","title":{"rendered":"General : Kedah Flood Victims Rise To 3,621"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"newsPic2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsdata2.bernama.com\/bernama\/newspic\/ge\/FW354447_KD13_251214_BANJIR_KEDAH.JPG\" border=\"1\" width=\"300\"\/><br \/><\/span>ALOR SETAR, Sept 25 (Bernama) &#8212; The number of residents affected by the flash floods in Kedah as of 8am is 3,621, from 3,439 last night.<\/p>\n<p>The state disaster management department secretariat in a statement said water from upstream and the high tide contributed to the situation warranting more people to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The victims comprising 1,081 families are sheltered at 29 evacuation centres, an increase from 22 earlier, and 12 are in Kota Setar district.<\/p>\n<p>The centres are located at Sekolah Kebangsaan Titi Gajah, Alor Setar (334 people); SK Seri Gunung (180); SK Alor Mengkudu (117); Dewan Taman Sri Bagan (95); Surau Pondok Kepala Bukit (88); Surau Assyakirin, Kepala Batas (75); Masjid Kampung Lengkuas (46); SK Bukit Pinang (40); Dewan Wawasan Kampung Kelompang (32); SK Suka Menanti (26); Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Seberang Perak (13); and SK Taman Aman (nine).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, flood victims in Kubang Pasu district are staying at seven centres at Dewan Lubuk Batu (533); SMK Mahawangsa (469); Dewan Kubur Siam (303); Dewan Tokong Cina (167); SK Kodiang Lama (41); Dewan Manggol Malau (37); and Dewan Kampung Lahar (31).<\/p>\n<p>In Pokok Sena district, the six centres are at SK Bukit Hijau (437); Madrasah Maahad Tarbiyah (166); Dewan Kampung Permatang Limau (35); Dewan Lubuk Keriang (34); Surau Kampung Menerong (18); and Dewan Kampung Empa (16).<\/p>\n<p>In Pendang district, four centres were opened, at Pusat Rakan Sukan Guar Kepayang (165); Pusat Rakan Sukan Padang Pusing (55); Pusat Rakan Sukan Ayer Puteh (46); and Pusat Rakan Sukan Bukit Raya (13).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALOR SETAR, Sept 25 (Bernama) &#8212; The number of residents affected by the flash floods in Kedah as of 8am is 3,621, from 3,439 last night. The state disaster management department secretariat in a statement said water from upstream and the high tide contributed to the situation warranting more people to be evacuated. The victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[67,59,32],"class_list":["post-406402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-bernama","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}