Perlis flood evacuees recall race against rising waters

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Gon Qasim and her husband were about to flee their home in Perlis last weekend when rising floodwaters cut off road access, leaving them stranded in the middle of a field.  Unusually heavy rain in the northern state, which borders southern Thailand, has caused severe flooding since last week, displacing more than 7,000 people from their homes.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Unpredictable weather conditions marked by intermittent bouts of heavy rain have driven

00:06up the number of flood evacuees in Perlis.

00:09The number of evacuees rose to 7,622 people on Thursday afternoon, with 24 relief centers

00:16currently operating in Padangbasar, Arao and Kangar.

00:20Seventy-three-year-old evacuee Gon Qasim said she and her husband were about to flee their

00:25home when rising floodwaters cut off road access, leaving them stranded in the middle of a field.

00:55Gon and her husband were eventually rescued by one of their children living nearby and

01:10taken to the evacuation center in Kangar.

01:13Another evacuee, 35-year-old Norza Filini Al Zakir, recounted how she was forced to leave

01:20her home due to the flooding, just weeks after giving birth to her third child.

01:25We don't think about that in the airport, I always had to climb up at the airport with

01:32a standard.

01:33This time, it would climb up to the front of the room.

01:36It would be one room, it would be too fast.

01:39It would be slow, but this time, it would be too slow.

01:45It would be too slow.

01:47After that, when I left, I would have to take a risk.

01:51If I left, I would have to take a risk.

01:54We felt like we didn't know what to do.

01:59We didn't know what to do.

02:02After that, with the baby, we were afraid because we had to be careful.

02:07I would have to take a risk.

02:20Unusually heavy rain in Perlis, which borders southern Thailand, has caused severe flooding

02:25across many parts of the state since last week.

02:37In the meantime, there was kind of an ordinary author of the physical background, but it will

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