Rescuers search for victims in Garut, West Java province, after flash floods which are thought to have killed 19 people EPA/DAENKNineteen people including five children have been killed in flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia. Hundreds were forced from their homes after torrential downpours on Java island early this morning. Among the dead were an eight-month-old toddler and four children under the age of ten, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a national disaster agency spokesman. Water rose quickly to over six feet in the town of Garut, where a river burst its banks and killed eight. Rain caused another in the Sumedang regency of West Java, killing three, destroying a mosque and leaving another casualty buried in the avalanche of mud…

Source: The Times September 21, 2016 08:04 UTC