Two shelters in Kota Belud – the Tun Said community hall and Botung sports complex – were closed at 1.30pm after all the flood victims relocated there went home.
An advisory from the Sabah Civil Defence Department said the number of people who left the two shelters had not been determined yet.
However, as at 2.40pm today, 1,068 evacuees were still housed in four shelters in Kota Belud and Membakut districts.
Three relocation centres in Kota Belud – SK Pekan, SMK Taun Gusi II and SMKA Tun Said – have reported some evacuees returning home.
In Membakut, 98 people were still sheltered at the Membakut multipurpose hall.
Yesterday, about 1,800 people were reported to have been evacuated from their homes at the height of the floods in Kota Belud.
This was the second major flood in three months to hit Kota Belud, which experienced its worst floods in memory in October.
River sedimentation and land surface runoff, caused by the devastating earthquake that hit nearby Ranau in June 2015, were among the reasons for the unusual severe flooding.
More than 2,500 people were displaced at the time.
The Sabah government has approved RM50 million for a flood mitigation project along Sungai Kedamaian, a major river that flows through Kota Belud.
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