Publication Date:
Fri, 2011-03-11 14:49
Sutrisno, the deputy head of the National Disaster Management Agency, said torrential downpours forced a river to burst its banks in a village in Aceh province late Thursday.
He said more than 150 houses were destroyed in Tangse and five other villages.
Twelve bodies have been pulled from the mud and the wreckage of crumpled homes. The toll is expected to climb with several more people missing.
He said rescue workers are struggling to reach cut-off villages.
Landslides and flooding triggered by torrential downpours kill dozens of people every year in Indonesia’s vast tropical archipelago.
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