Kelantan police chief Yusoff Mamat said seven of the PPS are in Pengkalan Kubur, Tumpat, and two in Lubuk Jong and Rantau Panjang, Bernama reported.
He said a police helicopter arrived in Kelantan, along with armed forces’ heavy vehicles, yesterday.
He said the helicopter had been used several times, once to transport a patient from a PPS to the hospital and the rest to deliver food aid to the PPS that have been cut off.
Yusoff said the armed forces vehicles will be on standby to transport candidates for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination starting on Monday.
The flood situation in several states has worsened, with the number of evacuees rising to 142,684 this evening.
In Kelantan, the number of evacuees rose to 91,279 from 28,263 families as of 3.30pm today, up from 80,640 this morning, with all taking shelter in 288 PPS.
At least four people have been reported dead in the floods, three in Kelantan and another in Terengganu.
A one-year-old toddler was on the upper floor of a double-storey house in Tumpat before falling into floodwaters on Thursday. The other two incidents in Kelantan involved a 35-year-old man who was electrocuted and a 64-year-old man who drowned in Machang.
On Thursday, a 66-year-old man drowned in Besut, Terengganu.
‘Monitor hill slopes’
Meanwhile, deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the authorities had been instructed to step up monitoring of landslide-prone areas along hill slopes.
He visited the family of the two sisters killed in a landslide yesterday in Kampung Bukit Apit, Kota Bharu, today. He also inspected the landslide location together with officials from several government departments and agencies.
Zahid, who is also the National Disaster Management Committee chairman, provided donations to the victims’ mother, Ruziah Fuad, 46, who is currently staying at a new rented house provided by the state government.
The two sisters, Puteri Sajidah, 16, and Siti Fatimah, 13, were found buried under the landslide, while their eldest sister, Uzair Azman, 17, was rescued.
Separately, finance minister II Amir Hamzah Azizan has called on government-linked companies and the private sector to collaborate with government agencies in providing aid to flood victims.
Speaking at an event in Johor Bahru, he said such initiatives could be integrated into the companies’ corporate social responsibility programmes.
Separatedly, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif planned to send aid to Malaysia in the wake of the recent floods.
Shehbaz, in a phone call to Anwar, expressed his sympathies and solidarity.