The death toll from floods in Jakarta, Indonesia, amounts to 21

The death toll from floods in Jakarta, Indonesia, amounts to 21



Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, and surrounding towns like Tangerang, Bekasi and Bogor have suffered in recent days flash floods and landslides that have killed a minimum of 21 people. This has been confirmed to REUTERS by the spokesman for the Ministry of Social Affairs, Joko Hariyanto.

 consistent with local authorities, specifically the Indonesian Geophysics Agency, a forecast is being considered during which heavy rains are expected for subsequent days. These are going to be amid lightning and powerful winds.

 Since New Year's Eve and January 1, many bands in Jakarta and nearby villages suffer these floods and 19,000 people have had to be evacuated to provisional shelters, consistent with Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan. They also affected one among the airports within the capital, the Halim Perdanakusuma, has already regained normality after being forced to shut and redirect all its traffic to the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

 The authorities haven't provided details on the causes of the death of all the victims, although they previously announced that four of those deaths had been caused by drowning, another four by abrupt landslides and 4 more after being electrocuted, while three died of hypothermia

 Jakarta, a neighborhood dotted with natural disasters


 The capital of Indonesia and its surrounding populations are areas especially suffering from this sort of environmental phenomena. This portion of land provides shelter altogether its extensژion to quite 30 million people. quite 50 people died in one among the deadliest flood capitals in 2007, and five years ago much of the town center was flooded after the canals overflowed.

 The deadliest floods in recent years caused the displacement of quite 30,000 people and caused chaos in many places, most of them in Southeast Asia . many cities were collapsed by the blockade of train lines, also because the electrical failure in other areas. Parts of the greater Southeast Asia city with blocked train lines and power outages in some areas.

 City authorities have recently sought to alleviate the vulnerability of Jakarta to floods during the season . Floods and landslides affect Indonesia per annum during the season , whose peak is between December and February.

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