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KOTA KINABALU: Heavy rain last night caused severe flooding in Sabah’s Beaufort and Membakut townships after two main rivers in the southwestern area breached dangerous levels today.
Beaufort district officer Jupery Etok said as at 2.30pm today, about 40 families, comprising over 100 people, had been moved to a temporary relief shelter at the Kampung Selagon hall in Beaufort town.
Jupery expects conditions to worsen as a downpour continues upriver at Tenom where the Tenom Pangi hydroelectric dam is located.
He said the heavy rain in Beaufort lasted for five hours until midnight yesterday while Membakut experienced a downpour from 6pm to 11pm.
“The water levels at Sungai Padas and Sungai Membakut are continuously rising and we expect more people to be transferred from their homes to the relief centre,” he said when contacted.
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He said due to the heavy rain in Tenom, two water gates at the dam had been opened to release the high volume of water.
According to figures provided by the Civil Defence Force, a total of 19 villages in Membakut, which is a sub-district, and four in Beaufort, have been affected by severe floods.
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The water levels as of noon today for Sungai Padas and Sungai Membakut were at 8.82m and 7.47m, above the dangerous level of 8.70m and 6.80m for the respective rivers.
A number of main roads in both areas are impassable to all types of vehicles, including the Jalan Kampung Bakalau intersection in Beaufort and Jalan Kampung Bambangan in Membakut.
It is understood that the floods in Beaufort and Membakut also affected the train services for the Kota Kinabalu-Membakut- Beaufort route after rail tracks came under water in several areas.
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Meanwhile, at the other end of the west coast, a road has collapsed in Tamparuli, about 35km north of here, also due to heavy rain since yesterday.
About 28m of the Jalan Tamparuli-Kiulu stretch collapsed after the earth beneath it gave way at about 3.30am today.
Sabah Public Works Department (JKR) director Richard Jomiji told reporters that the road was the main route linking Tamparuli to Kiulu, both of which are rural areas.
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Road users are advised to use alternative routes at Jalan Kiulu-Lawa Mondou, Jalan Kiulu Logkou Lama or Jalan Bungalio Logkou Timbok.
Jomiji also said Sabah JKR would try to complete a temporary by-pass near the collapsed road as soon as possible.
On Sunday, a landslide cut off the main road at KM96.7 of Jalan Kundasang-Ranau. - FMT
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