Filed under: Storm
Jambi (ANTARA News) – At least one people was reportedly killed and hundreds of houses were destroyed as rainstorm, accompanied by lighting and thunder, swept through Jambi on Sunday.
Jambi municipal spokesman Jhon Eke Powa said here on Monday that the four-hour windstorm which started at 4 pm until 8 pm on Sunday evening destroyed at least 118 houses, uprooted a number of trees, and cut off electrical power across the city of Jambi.
He said the power failure caused a period of power blackout across the city for over eight hours.
“A construction worker at a shopping center who was hit by fallen debris was rushed to a nearby hospital but he breathed his last before reaching the hospital,” Jhon Eke Powa said, adding that the identity of the fatality was still unclear.
He added that Jambi city mayor had ordered the heads of sub-districts to go to the field and collected data about material loss and other possible fatalities. (*)
Filed under: Flood
Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) – Floods have inundated around 6,000 houses in 49 villages in six sub districts in Kampar District, Riau Province, over the past three weeks.
“A total of 6,010 houses have been inundated in six sub districts,” Kampar District Head Burhanudin Husin said here on Wednesday.
The flood-hit sub districts were Tambang, Siak Hulu, Perhentian Raja, Kampar Kiri, Kampar Kiri Hulu, and Gunung Sahilan, he said.
The flooding had also damaged roads, farming areas and plantations.
The Kampar district administration was planning to request a budget allocation from the central government for renovation of roads, houses, farming areas and plantations affected by the floods. (*)
Filed under: Flood
(From Various news report )Residents living along the Ciliwung River, in particular at Cawang, Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta and Bukit Duri in South Jakarta were forced to evacuate as the river breached its banks early Tuesday.The water level at the Ciliwung River increased due to incessant rain in Bogor, West Java since Monday night.
The latest update at Manggarai sluice gate stated that the water level reached up to 800 cm.According to staff at the Manggarai sluice gate, the increasing water level is not only occurring at Manggarai. “At Katulampa, water at the sluice there has reached up to 100 cm.
While in Depok, the water is at 145 cm,” said Anton.In Riau, at least 12,614 families on Monday were facing evacuation following the overflow of a major river in the province.
Earlier, at least 1,012 families were forced to evacuate.An official from the National Disaster Management Agency, Alius, said the residents were evacuated to shelters in Pekanbaru, Riau.
The local government has provided more than 20 shelters for the flood victims, Alius added.Meanwhile, the head of public relations from the Riau Government, Surya Maulana, said that several schools in the province were forced to close due to the floods.
In Bengkulu, dozens of houses and hundreds of hectares of paddy fields were inundated in Tanjung Jaya, Serut River district, Bengkulu due to incessant rain since Monday night. The rain also overflowed a number of rivers, including the Bangkahulu River.Meanwhile, four villages in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, West Java still inundated on Tuesday evening, which has hampered economic, education and transportation activities.
