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View all search resultsThe head of the Rokan Hilir Police Water and Air Unit, Adj. Comr. Charisma Fajar Angkasa Putra, said local fishermen discovered the bodies at multiple locations between Nov. 7 and early December.
Several regions in southern Indonesia are bracing for potential floods, landslides and extreme weather following the discovery of a new cyclone seed that has already affected Bali and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), heightening urgency for disaster preparedness.
The three provinces have suffered severe devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait and unleashed a week of torrential rain and powerful winds, triggering widespread floods and landslides.
Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week. Climate change is producing more extreme rain events and turbocharging storms in the region.
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand faced large-scale devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait fuelling heavy rains and wind gusts for a week. There were 336 dead in Indonesia, 170 in Thailand, and two deaths reported in Malaysia.
Pressure is mounting on the central government to declare a national state of emergency after floods and landslides devastate northern and western Sumatra, cutting key transportation networks and leaving local administrations struggling to provide relief.
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