a minute agoA total of 47 victims from the flood in Indonesia
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Emergency officials in Indonesia said Friday that the number of people dead from the flooding in this country's capital, Jakarta, has gone to 47. Jakarta this week was swept away by the biggest seasonal rainfall in the last decade, causing rivers to burst out of bed and to be flooded [...]
Jakarta this week was engulfed by the biggest seasonal rainfall in the last decade, causing rivers to run out of bed and to be flooded at least 182 neighbourhoods. Some people have been trapped by landslides in the suburbs of the city.
An official of the National Disaster Management Agency said around 400,000 people have sought refuge in the Metropolitan city after the water level in some parts has reached 5.8m.
Increasing sea levels and extreme weather, affected by global warming, are threatening the city of 30 million people. Jakarta is now valued as the world's nearest city.
Indonesia's president, Yoko Widodo, has said that the country's capital in the next ten years would be assigned to another country due to Jakarta's large burden of population.
This is the highest number of victims from the floods since 2013, when 57 people had died in the capital because of heavy rainfall and floods, writes the Guardian”, broadcast Express Journal.
