Sungai Petani woman and six others evacuated from Thailand floods

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A woman from Sungai Petani, Kedah, along with five other adults and a child, were rescued by United Sikhs Malaysia volunteers after being stranded by severe flooding in Hat Yai, Thailand.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A woman from Sungai Petani, Keda traveling together with her family of five other adults

00:05and a child, have been rescued by United Sikhs Malaysia volunteers after being stranded by

00:11severe flooding in Hat Yai, Thailand.

00:14What began as a holiday across the border quickly turned into a harrowing ordeal when

00:19unprecedented floods struck the southern Thai city without warning.

00:23The group of seven found themselves trapped as rapidly rising floodwaters rendered roads

00:28impossible and halted all transportation services.

00:32Hi, I'm from Sungai Petani.

00:34We came as a family, six adults, one child.

00:37We came to Hanoi on the 21st and the water started rising, we were stuck.

00:46We couldn't come out from the hotel and there was no electricity.

00:50Everything was cut off.

00:51As we came in the first day, it was really raining heavily.

00:56And throughout the day, it was raining and at night, we realized the water levels was

01:01really rising.

01:02We were desperate for food and we couldn't go out of the hotels.

01:07We have a kid, one and a half year old, my niece.

01:11We were really, very, very trapped in the hotel.

01:14The water was really rising, nobody could go out, there was no help.

01:18Even the locals were not helping and finally we contacted United States, who came all the

01:25way, really appreciative.

01:28Responding to the crisis, the humanitarian organization deployed a rescue team across the

01:33border to locate and evacuate the stranded Malaysians.

01:37So, thank you very much.

01:51Thank you very much.

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