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An aerial view shows houses submerged in
floodwaters in the district of Aceh Tamiang, Aceh province, Dec. 24, 2006.
More than 100 people have been dead in flood and landslide in
Indonesia's provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra since
Friday, according to the
Indonesian official source Sunday. (Xinhua/AFP
Photo)
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Villagers carry a mattress on a makeshift boat through floodwaters in the village of Pelawi in the district of Langkat, North Sumatra province, Dec. 25, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Indonesian Sumatran provinces hit by catastrophic
floods
JAKARTA, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Over 100 lives have been claimed
and 110,000 others forced to evacuate by one of the worst floods hitting dozens
of districts in Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces in the past three
days while the Acehnesses were preparing for second anniversary of the Indian
Ocean tsunami.
The flash floods, which came at the rainy season after a five-month drought in most of the country, has brought grave casualties and heavy losses to the affected areas. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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