Tambun: Several houses were damaged by strong winds during heavy downpours since this evening at Taman Tambun near here.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, a Kinta district Civil Defence Force (CDF) spokesman said that strong winds also caused several trees to fall. “We received news about the storm including from victims at 6.44 pm indicating that the roofs of their houses were blown off by strong winds,” they stated.

A CDF team was deployed to the scene to monitor and conduct clean-up operations as well as identify the number of affected houses. No casualties have been reported so far, and the number of houses affected is still being determined, they added.