Severe flooding caused by heavy rain in Malaysia has forced more than 122,000 people out of their homes across the country.
Disaster officials also added that three people had died from flooding
There are fears the number could increase as the heavy rain and storm warnings are still in place.
Thousands of emergency services officers have been posted to help rescue stranded residents and shelters have been provided for that purpose.
The flooding had begun earlier in the week and it is mostly concentrated on the north-eastern state of Kelantan, bordering Thailand.
The National Disaster Management Agency has said the evacuees there account for 63% of the total number.
So far, the number of those displaced exceeds that of 2014, where one of the worst floods in the country occurred.
The disaster agency has set up 679 emergency shelters for those affected, some of which include; Terengganu, Kedah, Negeri Sembilan, Perlis, Selangr, johor, Melaka and Perak.
The prime minister’s office prohibited his cabinet members from going on leave on Friday, so they can focus on the disaster.
Malaysia’s monsoon season almost always starts in November, and flooding isn’t an uncommon phenomenon.
In 2021, the country faced some of its worse flooding in decades. That year, at least 14 people died as a result of flooding.
