Nearly a thousand people were evacuated as weather conditions remained bad early on Wednesday) though officials expect water levels to drop with the receding sea tide.
Sipitang became the latest district to be hit with some 78 people in low-lying kampungs evacuated while river currents amid a heavy downpour knocked down a wooden customs jetty in the town area.
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