JAKARTA (Reuters) – Seven folks had been killed and a few lacking in Indonesia’s North Maluku province on Sunday after floods within the east of the sprawling archipelago, the native search and rescue company stated.
Heavy rainfall since Saturday prompted the flooding on Ternate island, hitting Ternate metropolis, stated the company, Basarnas.
“Our team still making efforts to evacuate the victims who were hit by landslides and house building materials that were carried away by the flood,” Basarnas stated in a press release, including two folks had been discovered alive.
Information web site Detik.com and broadcaster Kompas TV stated 11 folks had died, however a Basarnas official couldn’t affirm the toll.
In Could, flash floods and dirt slides in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province killed greater than 60 folks.
