Flooding in Indonesia’s Jakarta claims 16 lives, thousands displaced

Flooding also highlights Indonesia’s infrastructure problems as it tries to attract foreign investment

Extreme flooding in Indonesia’s capital as inhabitants commended the new year has killed at any rate 16 individuals, dislodged several thousands and constrained an air terminal to close, the nation’s fiasco the board office said on Thursday. Storm rains and rising streams submerged at any rate 169 neighborhoods and caused avalanches in the Bogor and Depok locale on Jakarta’s edges, National Disaster Mitigation Agency representative Agus Wibowo said.

Video and photographs discharged by the organization indicated vehicles skimming in sloppy waters while fighters and rescuers in elastic pontoons helped youngsters and seniors constrained onto the tops of overwhelmed homes. The floods immersed a large number of homes and structures in poor and affluent areas the same, have constrained specialists to cut off power and water and deadened vehicle systems, Wibowo said.

In excess of 31,000 individuals were in transitory safe houses after floodwaters came to up to 2.5 meters (8 feet) in places, Wibowo said. As much as 37 centimeters (14.5 inches) of precipitation was recorded in Jakarta and West Java’s uneven regions on New Year’s Eve, causing the Ciliwung and Cisadane streams to flood, Jakarta Gov. Anies Baswedan told correspondents in the wake of directing an airborne study over the overflowed city…

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UN chief saddened by displacement of 1 mn, 41 deaths due to rains in India

National disaster response teams are carrying out search-and-rescue operations and some 20,000 people are sheltered in dozens of relief camps.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has expressed sadness at the loss of life, displacement of people and destruction of property due to the heavy monsoon rains in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar and said the world body stands by to provide support if required.

Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq said Monday according to UN’s humanitarian officials, heavy monsoon rains in India have displaced more than one million people and claimed at least 44 lives. National disaster response teams are carrying out search-and-rescue operations and some 20,000 people are sheltered in dozens of relief camps.

In southeast Nepal, recent heavy rainfall has reportedly killed 67 people and displaced more than 16,500 households, Haq said, adding that search-and-rescue operations have been stepped up, and food, water and tarpaulins are the most-needed items. “The United Nations offers its condolences to the Government and people of both Nepal and India and stands by to provide support if required,” Haq said.

A statement issued by the UN Spokesperson’s office said that the Secretary-General Guterres is “saddened by the loss of life, displacement of people and destruction of property due to the heavy monsoon rains and associated flooding across South and South-East Asia, most notably in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar.”