JAKARTA, Feb 26 (NNN-ANTARA) – Five people were killed and three others went missing, during floods in and around Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, a disaster agency official said today (Wednesday).
Nearly 20,000 people were forced to flee their home a day earlier, but some parts of the city and its nearby provinces of West Java and Banten remained submerged today (Wednesday), spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, Agus Wibowo, said.
The search for the missing has been underway, he said.
Waters with up to one metre deep are still inundating several parts of the capital and its surrounding areas, Wibowo said, in a text message.
Three school buildings, one mosque and over 800 hectares of rice fields were submerged during the floods, making farmers suffer financial losses, according to him.– NNN-ANTARA
