THE Police Air Wing has deployed their helicopters for urgent food aid deployment to remote longhouses and scattered settlements in rural Sarawak cut off from due the current floods-landslides crises.
The military has also deployed their soldiers and heavy duty army trucks into these remote areas to assist.
These forces are working with the ground teams from the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department and Civil Defence Unit already out in full force in the afflicted zones, said the Sarawak Public Communications Unit.
In its updates, the Unit said numerous police and Bomba helicopters are taking off daily from food supplies bases.
There are still about 10,000 flood victims who are being housed in evacuation centres.
However, there are many more people in the very remote settlements who could not be evacuated as they are cut off from all land links, the Unit said.
"The population cut off from land communication links need food to be airlifted to them.”
At the southern Sarawak border mountains, at least 29 different locations in the Tebedu district adjacent to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border have been hit by landslides, Tebedu state assemblyman Dr Simon Bada said.
These affected locations are along trunk, village roads and also villages.
"We are not worried just about floods, but also landslides as we have many populated villages and many hilly areas in Tebedu.
"The Public Works Department and other enforcement agencies are on the ground throughout the constituency now as there are many roads cut off.
"Land links with many villages are also cut off," he said when visiting flood hit areas. – February 4, 2025
