Indonesia’s Flood Catastrophe | The Full Report

About 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured and 504 are missing The number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the country’s disaster agency said, with 504 people missing. The toll was a sharp increase from the 604 dead reported by the agency on Monday. Continue reading...

Hundreds more were still missing and millions have been displaced in the rain-drenched region, with Sri Lanka and Indonesia hit particularly hard.

Meanwhile, Iran grapples with one of worst droughts and temperatures fall 10C below normal in US More heavy rainfall is expected in Sri Lanka in the coming days, likely resulting in further damage across the country. It comes after torrential rainfall in south-east Asia triggered catastrophic flash floods and landslides that have affected millions, killing more than 300 people in Indonesia and 160 in Thailand, with hundreds more still missing. Parts of North Sumatra, Indonesia, were hit with rainfall totals of 800mm over four days, with other areas also experiencing heavy rainfall. Continue reading...

A deadly cyclone hits Indonesia’s Sumatra, wiping out communities. Al Jazeera examines the scale of destruction.

Among the 42 people missing after landslide in West Java, 19 were members of Indonesia’s elite marine force.

The death toll from Saturday’s landslide in a residential area of West Java province has risen to 10.

Rescue teams are searching the West Java village for 83 people who are still unaccounted for.

More than 1,170 lives have been lost as floods hit North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh, leaving communities in crisis.

More than a month after floods hit Indonesia, survivors are still living in ruins and desperately trying to get by.

Nearly a million people have been displaced after flood waters devastated three provinces in Indonesia, including Aceh.

Floods ravage villages, leaving thousands displaced in makeshift shelters with little aid.

People are relying on plastic sheets as makeshift shelters after devastating flooding flattened homes in Indonesia.

More than 1,800 people have died as floods have ravaged Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

The region has seen a rise in more powerful storms this year.

Indonesia says 1,000 dead, some 1 million displaced from rains as report points at the threat posed by climate change.

Disaster agency warns that monsoon storms are adding more rain and making hillsides unstable.

Hundreds more people are still missing as intensive rains pose new dangers in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

President Dissanayake has called rescue and recovery efforts the most difficult in the nation's history.

Landslides flatten homes in North Sumatra, leaving families fearing every noise and hoping for safer futures.

Aerial footage shows villages in North Sumatra buried in mud after catastrophic floods and landslides

Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.

At least 631 people have died in floods in the Southeast Asian country, with the death toll expected to rise.

More than 1,000 people have died in floods and landslides across south Asia after days of tropical storms.

Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand leave more than 1,000 dead, thousands missing and millions displaced.

Drone video shows widespread destruction in part of Sumatra in Indonesia, where over 440 people have died in flooding.

Floods across Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have killed nearly 1,000 people in less than a week.

At least two areas of the worst-affected Sumatra island still unreachable, as authorities struggle to deliver aid.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declares a state of emergency to deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declares a state of emergency to deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah.

Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction.

Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been inundated with cyclone-driven rain for a week, killing about 400 people.

At least 80 people have died in Indonesia with another 56 dead in Sri Lanka in a week of extreme weather.

Improved weather on Sunday helped rescuers on Indonesia’s main island of Java recover more bodies as they dug through mud and debris in search of scores of missing in a landslide that killed more than two dozen villagers. The predawn landslide on the slopes of Mount Burangrang in West Java province on Saturday buried some 34 houses in Pasir Langu village. On Sunday, 72 people remained missing, many feared buried under tons of mud, rocks and uprooted trees. About 230 residents living near the...

Seven ‍people died and ⁠82 were missing after a ‍landslide in ‍the West Bandung ‌region of Indonesia’s West ‍Java regency, Indonesia’s ‌disaster mitigation agency ⁠spokesman Abdul Muhari said on ‌Saturday. A local official said the landslide struck ‌a village in West Bandung regency. “The number ‍of missing persons is high, we will try to optimise our search and ‌rescue ⁠efforts today,” Muhari said. Indonesia’s weather agency had previously warned of ‌extreme weather, including heavy rains in...

Army helicopters rescued people stranded on rooftops and hundreds of tourists and workers were evacuated from one of the world’s biggest game reserves, as torrential rains and flooding in three countries in southern Africa killed more than 100 people, authorities said on Friday. The death toll across South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe is an accumulation after weeks of heavy rains. Weather services issued warnings that more rain was on the way, possibly bringing more destructive...