A fireman spent the night sleeping by the roadside in the cold after his boat got stranded when fast-flowing floodwaters swept it away from the rest of the rescue team in the Machang district.
Wan Asri Wan Yaacob, recounting his experience of last Friday, said he had for company two colleagues and three villagers of Kampung Mata whom they had rescued.
The swift-flowing floodwaters had shoved the boat across the river to Kampung Kursial in the Tanah Merah district, he told Bernama.
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