US Edition'Is She Alive?': Indonesian Man's Hopes of Finding Missing Wife Fade After Flood Disaster
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'Is she alive?': Indonesian man's hopes of finding missing wife fade after flood disaster
In the days since cyclone-induced floods and landslides battered Indonesia's Sumatra island, Abdul Ghani has been carrying around a picture of his missing wife, showing it to everyone he meets.
In South-East Asia, the monsoon coincided with several storms and caused devastating floods. More than 1,100 people died, hundreds of thousands lost homes. Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam were particularly affected. The cause of the disaster was the weather anomaly: tropical cyclone Senyar was formed in the Strait of Malacca between the Malakca peninsula and the island of Sumatra, much souther than would no…
In several Asian countries, severe storms have caused devastating damage over the days, and death rates are rising, and hundreds of people are missing.
Relief and military workers are working on Monday to clear the roads and assist the people of Sri Lanka and Indonesia, affected by floods that have caused more than 1,000 deaths and several hundred missing people in four Asian countries in recent days.
A cyclone in Sri Lanka and an exceptional storm in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, particularly on the great island of Sumatra, caused torrential rains in the region during the monsoon period.
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