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MIRI – Some 700 villagers in the Long Ekang village in the central region of Baram district in northern Sarawak are inundated by rising floods.
The flood waters have already entered the longhouses following torrential rain since two days ago.
Community elder Peter Kallang told The Vibes today that the affected villagers had sent an urgent appeal to Telang Usan state assemblyman Dennis Ngau to help them.
“The rain has been falling non-stop and the whole longhouse and nearby houses are all flooded now.
“The farms are also inundated by the floods as the river tributaries have burst their banks,” he said. “Urgent help is needed as the floods have entered all of the homes.”
“These flood woes have been happening so often. Every time it rains heavily, floods will overwhelm us.”
Kallang said the village development committee has alerted Ngau about the latest flood in Long Ekang.
“The YB (Ngau) and the state government must find a solution to these flood woes that are becoming too frequent,” he said.
Kallang said more than 700 people have relocated their belongings from the ground floor of their homes to the higher floor.
They have no other alternative place to evacuate to, he said.
He called on Ngau to deploy help to afflicted folks not just in his Long Ekang village but also to the other inundated longhouses too.
Baram, which is located some 200km inland from Miri, is one of numerous populated districts in Sarawak hit by floods now.
Marudi district is also seeing widespread floods.
Sarawak has been seeing torrential rain over the past week or so. – The Vibes, January 29, 2022