Residents of Indonesia's remote Aceh Tamiang region climbed over slippery logs and walked for hours on Saturday, December 6, to reach aid distribution centers after deadly floods killed nearly 900 people across Sumatra island. The death toll from last week's cyclone-induced floods and landslides rose to 897 people Saturday, with 451 still missing, according to government data. The storm systems also killed about 200 people in southern Thailand and Malaysia. At one boarding school, students and s

Indonesians in the flood-stricken town of Batang Toru began cleaning their homes of mud and debris on Saturday (December 6), more than a week after deadly floods and landslides devastated the town and others in parts of the island of Sumatra, killing at least 900 people. The number known to have died as a result of the cyclone-induced floods and landslides across three Indonesian provinces in Sumatra was 916 on Saturday, with 274 listed as missing, government data showed. The storm systems also

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