Tens of thousands of residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters, and the Southeast Asian nation’s disaster agency warned the number killed could increase. “We’re still updating the figures from various sources and there is a possibility that the toll could increase,” National disaster agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said Thursday. Those killed died from drowning, hypothermia and being covered by landslides, while one 16-year-old boy was electrocuted by a power line. The disaster marked Jakarta’s worst flooding since 2013 when several dozen people were killed after the city was inundated by monsoon rains. Authorities said some 31,000 people had been evacuated, but that figure did not include residents in Jakarta’s satellite cities.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 02, 2020 03:11 UTC