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KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is in the process of identifying a suitable flood wall design for flash flood hotspots in the federal capital.

Worried about her young family. there are children in each tent we come across and scores of pregnant women. on the other side of the flood wall, i meet mariam, who is due to deliver any day. her village is buried under water, 20 kilometres from here. when the floods came, all they were able to save from her old life were the clothes on their backs and four cows. translation: i've already got eight children. - look at where we live. i can barely take care of them. sometimes, we don't eat for days. i'm worried notjust about my health but about my unborn baby. i don't even have money to go to ho...

The water across this district is rising and a quarter of a million people are in harm's way. it's notjust this woman who's worried about her young family. there are children in each tent we come across and scores of pregnant women. on the other side of the flood wall, i meet mariam, who is due to deliver any day. her village is buried under water, 20 kilometres from here. when the floods came, all they were able to save from her old life were the clothes on their backs and four cows. translation: i've already got eight children. - look at where we live. i can barely take care of them. sometim...

He's two days old, najma's sixth child. as he sleeps under a tree that's become this family's only shelter, his mother is anxious. this is no place for a baby. translation: we don't even have a tent, just this tree. . we spent the whole night in the rain, running away from the flood, trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won't stop. it's very difficult. baby badul was born in a nearby hospital, but najima was forced to return to the river bank because she'd left a husband and five young children. hundre...

Trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won't stop. it's very difficult. baby badulwas born in a nearby hospital, but najma was forced to return to the river bank because she'd left her husband and five young children. hundreds of families have taken refuge along a flood wall. their homes were washed away by the floods. this was the only high ground for kilometres. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here ho...