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Floods in Pahang were initially reported in three villages at Kuantan during the late hours of 16 December, although the extent was minor. Floodwaters at the villages receded the following morning. [97] However, Maran and Raub suffered floods the same day after 48 hours of continuous rain, and by 8 pm almost 200 people were evacuated. [98]
10 December 1969 – Kluang flood. [2] [3] January 1971 – Kuala Lumpur hit by flash floods. 2 March 2006 – Shah Alam hit by flash floods. 19 December 2006 – Several parts of Johor state including Muar, Johor Bahru, Skudai and Segamat were hit by flash floods. 10 January 2007 – Several parts of Johor were hit by flash floods again.
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In 1926, a particularly severe flood hit Kuala Lumpur, and work on the river then began in an attempt to reduce the risk of flooding. Part of the Klang River between the Gombak-Klang confluence and Brickfields was straightened, with a channel (part of which runs beside the present Jalan Syed Putra) including flood retention banks being dug to ...
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2020–2021 Malaysian floods is an event when several states in Malaysia were flooded in late 2020 and early 2021. Floods caused about tens of thousands of people to be evacuated to evacuation centers. The floods also claimed several lives, causing almost all types of land transport in the areas affected by the floods to be cut off.
The flooding was the result of heavy monsoon rains, [1] which swelled the Klang, Batu, and Gombak rivers. [2] 32 people were killed and 180,000 people were affected. [3] [4] The Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak declared a state of national disaster in Western Malaysia. [4] The floods were the worst in the country since 1926. [5]