Terra Daily via AFP: At least 56 people were killed and 24 remain missing after flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia's West Papua province, a disaster management official said Tuesday. The floods were unleashed on Monday after torrential downpours that began late Sunday in West Papua's Teluk Wondama district."We just received information from local officials there that 56 people were killed and 24 people went missing," Dani Kismianto told AFP. He said 81 people were seriously injured and most of them had been flown to hospitals in neighbouring districts of Nabire and Manokwari.
"We reckon that the death toll will increase as the terrain conditions make it hard for the rescuers to reach them," he said adding that the affected areas are mountainous…
Locator map of West Papua created by slawojar 小山, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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