LAMPUNG - More than 15,000 people have escaped floods in Lampung province on the island of Sumatra, a local disaster management agency said Friday. Consecutive days of heavy rain have caused rivers to overflow. Thousands of houses in South and East Lampung are submerged since Thursday, Ridwan, a local official of the agency said.
He told over the phone from the province that "14,728 people have fled homes in South Lampung and 176 others in East Lampung." The official said that the evacuees had taken shelters in their relatives houses and other buildings at higher ground. The waters also inundated hundreds of hectares of shrimp ponds and rice fields and were predicted to cause hundreds of millions of Rupiah in financial losses, he said.
The floods also paralyzed transportation as the water submerged roads, said Ridwan. Aid for the flood victims have so far been sufficiently supplied by the local administration, he said.
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LAMPUNG - More than 15,000 people have escaped floods in Lampung province on the island of Sumatra, a local disaster management agency said Friday. Consecutive days of heavy rain have caused rivers to overflow. Thousands of houses in South and East Lampung are submerged since Thursday, Ridwan, a local official of the agency said.
