Chaos in KL after 5 hours of rain
KUALA LUMPUR: A five-hour deluge caused flash floods which wreaked havoc in the city last night. Thousands of people were left stranded in parts of the city when Sungai Klang burst its banks around 9pm. Dataran Merdeka, Kampung Baru, Masjid Jamek, Masjid India, Air Panas in Setapak, and the city side of Jalan Ampang were under 1m of water.
Two women were injured when they were trapped by the branches of a tree that fell near them after the downpour. Kamala Devi, 46, and her daughter S. Thanaletchumi, 20, were outside the Royal Selangor Club in Dataran Merdeka when the incident occurred at 11pm.
They were accompanying Kamala’s husband, the club’s chief security officer L. Selvarajah, 48, who was checking the building after the heavy rain. Both women were trapped for half an hour while firemen cut through the branches to get to them. Kamala broke her right hip while her daughter suffered minor bruises.
At a fast-food outlet in Jalan Tun Perak, two women and a man were injured when a passing bus sent the flood waters crashing into the outlet’s glass entrance at 10.30pm. Several vehicles at the underground car park in Dataran Merdeka were submerged while the Putra LRT’s Masjid Jamek station had to be closed. Even the Jalan Maxwell fire station in Sentul was not spared, trapping several members of the Fire and Rescue Department.
Source : The new Staits Times
Two women were injured when they were trapped by the branches of a tree that fell near them after the downpour. Kamala Devi, 46, and her daughter S. Thanaletchumi, 20, were outside the Royal Selangor Club in Dataran Merdeka when the incident occurred at 11pm.
They were accompanying Kamala’s husband, the club’s chief security officer L. Selvarajah, 48, who was checking the building after the heavy rain. Both women were trapped for half an hour while firemen cut through the branches to get to them. Kamala broke her right hip while her daughter suffered minor bruises.
At a fast-food outlet in Jalan Tun Perak, two women and a man were injured when a passing bus sent the flood waters crashing into the outlet’s glass entrance at 10.30pm. Several vehicles at the underground car park in Dataran Merdeka were submerged while the Putra LRT’s Masjid Jamek station had to be closed. Even the Jalan Maxwell fire station in Sentul was not spared, trapping several members of the Fire and Rescue Department.
Source : The new Staits Times
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