Image of Tenang police beat inundated in flood water not true: Besut police chief

KUALA TERENGGANU: Besut district police chief Supt Mohd Zamri Mohd Rowi tonight denied that the Tenang police beat in Besut was inundated in thigh-deep flood water.
An image of the police beat submerged in the flood went viral on the social media.
He confirmed that it was an old image which had been viralled by some quarters.
"Indeed some areas in Besut are flooded following continuous heavy rain since morning, but the picture (of the Tenang police beat) is an old picture and the situation where water rose to thigh high at the police beat happened last Jan 3," he said when contacted by Bernama.
The fourth wave flood seems to have started in Terengganu with 11 flood relief centres opened today.
Ten of the centres were opened in Besut and another in Setiu to accommodate 194 flood victims as of 10.30 pm today. — Bernama