JAKARTA - Ten people have been killed in flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an official said Wednesday, with a search ongoing for three others still missing in the disasters on Java island. Aid has begun pouring into Garut in the west of Indonesia’s main island of Java, where 23 people died and 18 remain missing after torrential rain and fast-rising floods swept through the region, the national disaster agency said. Nugroho said Wednesday that about 1,000 villagers were evacuated to army barracks and other temporary shelters. Rains frequently caused landslides and widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, an archipelago where millions of people live in mountainous areas or on flood plains near rivers.
Heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides in the Indonesian province of West Java kill at least ten people and leave three others missing.