The rescuers are looking for missing people while the deadly floods of Indonesia fell | Floods the news

A one -week emergency was declared for floods that left at least 21 people dead.

The rescuers sought in rivers and rubble of devastated villages for survivors of sudden fatal floods who struck two provinces in Indonesia earlier this week, killing at least 23 people and leaving five disappeared, while the waters were starting to retreat.

The torrential rains during the last four days have caused floods and landslides in nine cities and districts of the Tourist Island of Bali and in the province of the East Nusa Tenggara. Rising Rivers overwhelmed at least 120 neighborhoods and resulted in a dozen landslides in several places, the spokesperson for the National Agency for Attenuation Disaster, Abdul Muhari, said on Thursday in a statement, with the higher death heel reported by officials.

Muhari said the rescuers had recovered seven more bodies while the floods withdrew to Bali, bringing the number of dead against floods on the island at 16. The rescuers are still looking for a missing resident, he added.

A one -week emergency was declared to mobilize additional resources.

While the levels of the river returned to nearly normal on Thursday, the inhabitants of Denpasar, the capital of Bali, left emergency shelters piled up.

The authorities took advantage of the water to start cleaning up the mud and removing piles of wet waste from the streets, while electricity was restored to tens of thousands of residences and businesses.

Indonesia is subject to floods and landslides during the rainy season, which generally culminates between November and March. Recent precipitation is considered unusually heavy for September.

Suharanto, chief of the national disasters attenuation agency, told a press conference on Wednesday that the flood threat in Bali was over.

He said that up to 600 rescuers, police and soldiers have been deployed since Wednesday to search for people who were still missing in Bali, because the floods also damaged the roads, the bridges and other infrastructure.

Until the end of Thursday, around 552 people remained in government shelters in several Bali districts, the agency said.

“The Indonesian Attenuation Agency for disasters blamed the strong showers, the Bali landscape and the activity of the tides as a cause of the great flood,” said Valdiya Barapotri d’Al Jazeera, reporting from Badung Regency to Denpasar.

“However, the Balinese see that there is more in the problem; rapid growth overloaded by superchoustage and mismanagement of town planning and waste in Bali is considered to be the root of the cause,” said Barapotri, ahead of “a ruin of three stores that have doubled the houses that collapsed in the flood”, resulting in the death of four.

Barapotri added that “Rivers and Ricefields in Bali [have been] Replaced by concrete, so Bali has lost a lot of water and recharge zone, so when the rain falls, which occurs quite often on this tropical island, Bali is more subject to floods. »»

In the eastern province of Nusa Tenggara, dozens of rescuers rummaged through a river around the village isolated from Mauponggo in the Hagekeo district, where the floods left tons of mud, rocks and trees.

On Thursday, rescuers found the body of a 14 month old child, one of the two toddlers that the rescuers had sought, said Muhari. On Wednesday, four other bodies were removed from flood or mud waters.

The local disassessing attenuation agency, chief Agustinus Pone, said that the violent time and the accidental ground that hindered rescue efforts were exacerbated by the disturbance of electricity, drinking water and telecommunications networks in 18 villages by sudden floods.

The floods and landslides in the region also destroyed two bridges, two government offices, a plantation and rice fields, and killed livestock, said Pone.