JOHOR BARU: The flood situation in Johor is worsening as the number of evacuees has jumped to 1,703 people as of 8pm from 1,093 at 2pm today.
The victims from 469 families have been placed in 16 flood evacuation centres in Segamat, Kluang and Kota Tinggi.
State Disaster Management Committee chair Tan Sri Dr Azmi Rohani, in a statement today, said Segamat continued to be the most affected district, besides recording the highest number of evacuees(1,229). The victims were from 345 families and were placed in eight evacuation centres.
At 4pm the district recorded 975 flood evacuees from 273 families in the eight relief centres.
"The victims increased in all eight relief centres, save for the Kampung Seberang Batu Badak hall and SK Kampung Tenang Labis. The evacuees at these centres remain unchanged at 17 and 477 victims respectively."
The number of victims at the centre in the Pekan Air Panas Multipurpose hall increased to 149 victims while Kampung Sungai Gatom Labis Hall increased to 121 victims and the Kampung Paya Merah Multipurpose Hall to 154.
"The centres in Segamat that recorded an increase in victims were the Segamat Kecil Orang Asli Village Multipurpose Hall (127), the SKJ(C) Ai Chun Chinese National Type School (120) and Kampung Usaha Jaya Hall (64)," he said in a statement today.
Azmi also said that an additional two centres were opened in Kluang. Overall six centres were opened in the district compared to only four earlier today.
It involved Sekolah Agama Seri Tengah 1 (43 victims), Kampung GSA Chamek (4), SMK Seri Perdana (196) and SJK (C) Ping Ming (26).
"The two new centres in Kluang are the Kampung Bentong multipurpose hall (21 victims) and Kampung Muhibah Paloh multipurpose hall (10 victims) centres.
"In Kota Tinggi, another centre was opened in Dewan Muafakat Taman Desaru Utama (131 victims) while the Kampung Baru Sungai Mas Hall remained opened. A total of 43 evacuees from Kampung Baru Sungai Mas involving six families have also been transferred to that hall," he said.
Meanwhile, Azmi said, three main roads, one each in Kota Tinggi and two in Segamat, were closed to all vehicles as they were inundated with floodwaters.
"In Kota Tinggi Jalan Ladang Siang (J223) is closed as floodwaters rose up to 0.75 m deep."
"In Segamat, two roads are closed namely the Senai-Gemas Road (FT001) due to 0.7 m of floodwaters. The Jabi-Bukit Tempurung Road (J516) is also closed to all vehicles due to 0.6m of flood water," he said.
Four roads were also cordoned off in the state due to floods and a landslide.
The landslide occurred in Kurau at Jalan Ulu Tiram to Ulu Tebrau.
In Kota Tinggi waters rose to 0.75m on Jalan Ladang Siang. While in Segamat it reached up to 0.7m and 0.6m on Jalan Senai-Gemas and Jalan Jabi Bukit Tempurung respectively.
In Mersing, Jalan Johor Baru to Endau and Jalan Jemaluang to Batu Pahat were partially closed; the level of waters that had spilled over to each of the roads were recorded at 0.2m and 0.35m respectively.
