Strong winds and heavy rainfall lasting for fifteen hours in Penang, Malaysia on Nov 4 and Nov 5 caused landslides, trees uprooted, houses damaged and paralysing many areas throughout the island and the mainland. The catastrophic event affected some 6,200 people or 1,720 families, who had to be placed in some 40 flood relief centres around the state. The flood also claimed seven lives. The flood this time around was one of the worst, for Penangites.
Portraits of flood victims affected by the flood in Penang, Malaysia.Flood victims walking through flood waters at their house in Penang, Malaysia.Two youths cautiously navigate through a flooded road in Penanti, Penang.Lim Eng Heong walks into her shop which was damaged by the flood waters in Penang, Malaysia.Flood victims serving warm sweet porridge at a flood shelter in Penang, Malaysia.A flood victim using her phone at a shelter in Guar Jering, a small village in Penang, Malaysia, which was damaged by the flood.Samsudin Shaari and his son staying on a lorry while waiting for flood waters to recede in Penang, Malaysia.A mother calming her two children at a flood shelter in Penang, Malaysia.
Aiman Amerul Muner 