More than 50 Killed in Flash Floods in Indonesia and Timor Leste

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More than 50 Killed in Flash Floods in Indonesia and Timor Leste

Huge downpours have set off avalanches, made dams flood and a huge number of houses to sink into the ground.

In excess of 50 individuals have lost their lives after floods and avalanches assaulted eastern Indonesia and adjoining East Timor on Sunday.

The floods were set off by substantial downpour. It caused disarray and obliteration from the island of Flores in Indonesia and right to East Timor, a little country east of the Indonesian archipelago.

The huge measures of downpour and the resulting avalanches made dams flood and a huge number of houses to sink into the ground. Salvage labourers keep on battling to discover over-comers of the obliteration.

Four regions and seven towns have been influenced. In the wake of contrasting our information and data from our salvage group in the field, we tracked down that 41 individuals have passed on, reports a representative from the crisis reaction in Indonesia.

“27 individuals are as yet absent and nine individuals are harmed,” representative Raditya Jati added.

In adjoining East Timor, 11 individuals have been slaughtered in floods in the capital Dili, specialists say.

We are as yet searching for individuals in the regions influenced by the catastrophic events, says Jose Gusmao dos Reis Martins, who is the nation’s Minister of Civil Protection.

The loss of life and the quantity of injured could in any case rise, authorities warn.

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