JAKARTA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Over seven hundreds people have escaped from flood and two others have gone missing in South Kalimantan province of Indonesia, health ministry said here Tuesday.

    Head of crisis center of the ministry Rustam Pakaya said that waters had submerged at one and a half meters high at Tanah Bumbu and Tanah Laut towns of the province.

    "Two people go missing and 688 others take shelters at secure places," he told Xinhua.

    The people took shelters at schools and their relative's houses located at higer places, said Pakaya.

    The official said that consecutive days of heavy rains which could not be held by lack-forest covered areas was blamed for the natural disaster.

    Logistic and medical assistance had arrived at the site of the disaster, he said.

    Indonesia has been frequently hit by floods and landslides due to lack of forest covered areas resulted by deforestation. But the archipelago country has now struggling to cope with the problem by planting millions of trees.