Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, paralyzin...
JAKARTA - Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, paralyzing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety.
Indonesia’s weather agency linked the rains to tropical cyclones that brought bad weather to southern parts of the archipelago. It also warned of high waves in the seas south of Java island.“We are concentrating on mitigation. We have prepared all resources to be deployed,” he told reporters, adding that evacuation posts had been set up with health facilities.
At the beginning of the year, the city was hit by some of the heaviest rain since records began, causing floods that killed more than 60 people and displaced about 175,000. Jakarta’s Search and Rescue Agency said on Twitter its teams were helping people in the west and east of the city.
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