More than 75,000 people were forced to evacuate.
JAKARTA – The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 21, an official said on March 10, with six people still missing.
“As of Sunday, 21 people were found dead and six people remained missing,” Fajar Sukma, an official from West Sumatra disaster mitigation agency, told AFP by phone on March 10. “Today’s search involves around 150 people from disaster organisations in West Sumatra,” Mr Abdul said in a statement. In the Padang Pariaman regency, also in West Sumatra, heavy downpours earlier this week caused rivers to overflow and triggered floods and a landslide, killing at least three people, according to a statement from the local disaster agency.
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