KOTA KINABALU: Incessant rain that started\u00a0late Tuesday and lasted until yesterday has caused\u00a045 villages in Beaufort and 15 villages in Membakut to be hit by floods.
\nThe Beaufort District Disaster Management\u00a0Secretariat, in a statement today said\u00a0no\u00a0one\u00a0has been evacuated so far, however\u00a0as a precautionary measure, one\u00a0relief\u00a0centre has been opened at\u00a0Dewan DSP Mohd Dun Banir.
\nHe said among the affected villages in Beaufort were Binunuk, Balibata, Simpang Empat, Bakalau, Sungkadan, Melalugus, Batandok Lubak, Melati, Lumatai; while in Membakut the affected areas included\u00a0Kampung Bambangan, Sinoko, Sindok, Baitam Ulu, Baitam Laut, and Baitam Baru.
\n\u201cContinuous downpour in Beaufort, Tenom and the Ulu Membakut area\u00a0has\u00a0led to\u00a0the\u00a0rise\u00a0in\u00a0water level\u00a0of\u00a0Sungai Membakut as well as Sungai Padas in two districts.\u00a0
\n\u201cTwo gates of the Pangi Hydro Dam\u00a0had to be opened to reduce the quantity of water in the dam, causing the water in Sungai Padas to reach a\u00a0dangerous level and following that, the Disaster Operations Control Centre was activated yesterday,\u201d it said.
\nThe floods also affected 59 roads in the districts, including\u00a0Jalan Kampung Binunuk, Jalan Pekan Lama Membakut, Jalan Kampung Baitam Baru, Jalan Kampung Suasa and\u00a0Jalan Kampung Kangsa.
\nAlso hit were\u00a011 schools, including three\u00a0in the Membakut district, namely Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Bambangan, Sekolah Kebangsaan Sinoko and\u00a0Sekolah Kebangsaan Pekan Membakut.
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KOTA KINABALU: Incessant rain that started\u00a0late Tuesday and lasted until yesterday has caused\u00a045 villages in Beaufort and 15 villages in Membakut to be hit by floods. The Beaufort District Disaster Management\u00a0Secretariat, in a statement today said\u00a0no\u00a0one\u00a0has been evacuated so far, however\u00a0as a precautionary measure, one\u00a0relief\u00a0centre has been opened at\u00a0Dewan DSP Mohd Dun Banir. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}