KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 — The number of flood evacuees across nine states has risen to 140,492, affecting 42,329 families, who are currently being sheltered in 713 temporary evacuation centres (PPS) as of 3pm.

The death toll from the worst floods in decades in southern Thailand and northern Malaysia climbed to at least 12 on Saturday, authorities said, as tens of thousands of people were evacuated due to rising water levels in the past three days.

Malaysia is preparing for its worst floods in a decade after heavier-than-expected monsoon rains caused severe flooding that killed three people and displaced more than 90,000