Floodwaters entered classrooms and the hostels, as well as the administrative blocks, with rising waters around a metre high.
Bomba personnel used boats to evacuate about a hundred or so students and teachers inside the school area that was inundated by floodwaters. The districts of Baram and Marudi saw numerous populated settlements inundated by more than a metre of floodwaters.Heavy rain over the past few days saw the rivers nearby overflowing at a swift pace, that even vehicles on the roads were trapped.Pictures sent by Sarawak Bomba saw cars and four-wheel drive vehicles and lorries trapped in floods about 1.5m high.