landslide and flash flood in Indonesia
Indonesia witnesses heavy rainfall flash flood and landslides in the region on Sunday morning. Torrential rain causes numerous difficulties for people, 44 people died and 9 were injured and several others were missing. Rocks fall onto several houses in Lamenele village from the nearby hills shortly after midnight. Mud overwhelm homes, while bridges and roads were destroyed in the rain, Emergency responders are finding it difficult to provide help to locals.
A statement of Indonesia’s National Board of Disaster Management said “The obstacle in the field that was identified by BPBD officers was that the only access was the sea crossing to Adonara Island. Meanwhile, rain, wind, and high waves mean that shipping is not allowed by the local authorities.
The flash floods were stimulated by torrential rains that happen in Indonesia each year. In a decade due to seasonal disaster, each year in Indonesia hundreds of thousands of people has lost their life. In January this year, more than 40 people were killed in two earth slips in Java.
The calamity destroys Easter day in the Catholic-majority Flores island with torrential rain unleashed flash floods. The country's disaster agency has approximated that 125 million Indonesian half the country's population, live in the area at risk of earth slips.
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