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View all search resultsFear of rising death toll grows as flood-hit Aceh regions remain isolated
The regions hit by the floods and landslides in Aceh remain cut off from the government’s rescue efforts and aid delivery because of infrastructural damages, prompting fear of a rising death toll in one of the worst-hit provinces in the disaster.
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A woman covered in mud stands on a street filled with mud on Saturday after a flash flood hit the area in Aceh Tamiang, Aceh province. Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people in Sumatra, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said on Saturday, with fears that starvation could send the toll even higher. (AFP/YT Hariono)
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egions hit by the floods and landslides in Aceh remain cut off from the government’s rescue efforts and aid delivery because of infrastructural damage, prompting fear of a rising death toll in one of the worst-hit provinces in the hydrometeorological disaster.
Central government and local administration efforts to provide aid to affected regions continued over the weekend following cyclone-induced floods and landslides that hit Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra two weeks ago.
As of Sunday night, the disaster had resulted in 921 fatalities, over 5,000 injured and over a million people displaced across 52 regencies in the three provinces, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB). More than 390 people remain missing.
Aceh has so far been hit the hardest, recording the highest number of deaths, at 366, and 312 bridges, over 138 thousand houses and 126 health facilities have been damaged.
Thousands of residents in some Aceh regencies continue to be isolated from aid deliveries, including in Bener Meriah, where the main road to neighboring regencies like North Aceh and Bireuen has been completely cut off, and in Central Aceh.
“These two regencies are severely isolated, as the disaster greatly affected 232 villages in Bener Meriah and 295 villages in Central Aceh,” BNPB head Lt. Gen. Suharyanto said on Sunday evening in a meeting with President Prabowo Subianto in Aceh’s capital of Banda Aceh.
Bener Meriah’s communication and information agency head Ilham Abdi said on Saturday that the regency was “still struggling to distribute aid, which ideally should be done via land”.
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