Air at unhealthy level in 5 towns

The haze in Kuala Lumpur city centre causing poor visibility, made worse by the continuing hot spell.

101 hotspots in Sumatra worsen haze in Klang Valley and other states

KUALA LUMPUR: THE air quality in five towns was recorded as "unhealthy", with Air Pollutant Index (API) readings above 100 recorded yesterday after the haze returned in the peninsula on Saturday.

The Department of Environment (DOE) website listed API readings from 52 air quality monitoring stations recorded at 5pm yesterday, with unhealthy levels in Malacca city (API 161), Bukit Rambai, Malacca (API 135), Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan (API 120), Kemaman, Terengganu (API 108) and Port Klang, Selangor (API 103).

At 11am yesterday, the API reading at Muar, Johor, was at 110, but conditions improved when the API levels decreased to 86 at 5pm.

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Chaos in Jalan 'Sungai' Tun Razak lash floods cause havoc, massive traffic jams

Scenes of chaos greeted city folk yesterday evening as raging flood waters turned Jalan Tun Razak into a "river", causing massive traffic jams all over the city.

Prolonged heavy rain earlier, which continued for three hours in the afternoon, had resulted in the water levels rising in Sungai Bunus in nearby Lorong Gurney, and overflowed into Jalan Tun Razak.

The traffic along Jalan Tun Razak - one of the city's main arteries - was subsequently left at a virtual standstill.

A sizeable portion of the road in front of the National Library was flooded, effectively choking off two lanes of traffic.

Reports claimed that sections of the area near the Police Training Centre (Pulapol) were also hit by the flood waters.