Death toll in Indonesia s massive flood rises over 150
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Scores of people have been killed in Indonesia and neighboring East Timor after Cyclone Seroja battered the region over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday.
At least 150 people are confirmed dead so far, with 128 deaths recorded in Indonesia and another 27 in East Timor.
Dozens still missing
Torrential rains triggered massive floods and landslides on Sunday that devastated communities in a remote cluster of islands in eastern Indonesia as well as the half-island nation of East Timor.
The death toll could rise further, with the Indonesian disaster management agency reporting that more than 70 people are still missing.
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Indonesia, Timor-Leste flood death toll surges past 150
Rescuers retrieving a victim s body in Nelemamadike village, East Flores, after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. (Photo: AFP/National Search and Rescue Agency/Handout)
06 Apr 2021 11:53AM (Updated:
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JAKARTA: Rescuers on Tuesday (Apr 6) were searching for dozens of people still missing after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, killing more than 150 people and leaving thousands more homeless.
Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja turned small communities into wastelands of mud, uprooted trees and sent about 10,000 people fleeing to shelters across the neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.
Race to find dozens missing in deadly Indonesia, East Timor floods Updated
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Rescuers were searching for dozens of people still missing Tuesday after
floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and East Timor, killing
at least 120 people and leaving thousands more homeless.
AFP
Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja turned small
communities into wastelands of mud, uprooted trees and sent around 10,000
people fleeing to shelters across the neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.
Indonesia s disaster management agency said it had recorded 86 deaths in a
cluster of remote islands near East Timor, where another 34 have been
officially listed as dead since the disaster struck on Sunday.
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