They need medicine, food, blankets. At least 27 people have also died in East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, news agencies quoted officials in the island nation as saying. Many of the victims are believed to be from the country's capital Dili. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has offered his condolences and urged people to follow the advice from officials during extreme weather periods.
One woman's body was recovered from the seashore on the island of Lembata after being swept down a mountainside. Landslides and flash floods are not uncommon across the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season. In January this year, 40 people died when flash floods hit the town of Sumedang on Java.
And last September, at least 11 people were killed in landslides on Borneo, while a few months earlier dozens died in Sulawesi. The country's disaster agency has estimated that nearly half of the country's population - some million people - live in parts of the country at risk of landslides.
Blood-red floodwaters hit Indonesian village. Rescuers have been searching for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and East Timor, killing more than people and leaving thousands more homeless.
Rescue efforts have continued on Tuesday as torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja turned small communities into wastelands of mud, uprooted trees and sent about 10, people fleeing to shelters across neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.
Search and rescue teams in Indonesia were racing to find more than 70 people still missing and using diggers to clear mountains of debris. The storm swept buildings in some villages down a mountainside and to the shore of the ocean on Lembata island. Authorities there said they were scrambling to shelter evacuees while trying to prevent any spread of COVID April 06, AM. VOA News. VOA News Subscribe. More Asia News. The Day in Photos. November 11, You may also like.
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