Rescuers recover more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud.
Rescuers recover more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud.The national disaster mitigation agency said 84 homes, 16 bridges and two mosques were damaged in Tanah Datar / Photo: AFP
"Data as of last night, we recorded 37 dead victims... But from this morning it has grown again, the figure reached 41 ," Ilham Wahab, West Sumatra disaster mitigation agency official said on Monday. Ilham encouraged"people to evacuate to relatives' places, which are safer" than tent shelters in heavy rains.
Cold lava, also known as lahar, is volcanic material such as ash, sand and pebbles carried down a volcano's slopes by rain.Authorities sent a team of rescuers and rubber boats to look for the missing victims and to transport people to shelters.
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