A five-fold rise in disaster victims


KEMAMAN 17 DEC 2014: Villages waiting outside their house after flood water start raising up at Kg Tebak, Kemaman due to non stop heavy rains since yesterday.(STAND ALONE PIX)zabidi tusin/the star/kuala terengganu

GOMBAK: More than half a million Malaysians were affected by disasters in the past 10 years, according to the World Disasters Report 2014.

This represented a five-fold increase from 103,168 people between 1994 and 2003 to 532,851 people between 2004 and 2013.

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