Over 31,000 people have fled their homes in Kelantan state while more than 39,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters in neighbouring Terengganu after flooding began over the weekend, the official Bernama news agency said.
Emergency services officials said a total of five people have died.
"The water levels reached almost three metres (10 feet)," Muhammad Ameenudin Badrul Hisyam from Kuala Krai district in Kelantan told AFP, as he cleared debris from his home after a nearby river overflowed and forced his family to flee.
Local media reported that four people died in Kelantan on Monday when three sisters were electrocuted while wading in the floodwaters and a 15-month-old boy drowned.
The fifth victim was a two-year-old girl swept away by strong currents in Terengganu on Sunday.
Additional evacuations took place in the states of Pahang, Johor and Perak, Bernama news said.
Floods are an annual phenomenon in the Southeast Asian nation of 33 million people due to the northeast monsoon that brings heavy rain from November to March.
In the same month last year, the country was battered by its worst floods in history when more than 50 people died and thousands more were displaced.
New Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was due to visit some of the affected areas later on Wednesday, has said his government will release extra funds for disaster management and rescue efforts.
Anwar, who is also the finance minister, said in parliament Tuesday the government has initially allocated RM400 million ($90 million) to the National Disaster Management Agency.
Disaster officials said they will carry out aerial monitoring of the flood situation in the worst-hit states.
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