Rescuers have been searching in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for survivors of deadly flash floods that struck two provinces in Indonesia earlier this week, killing at least 23 people and leaving five missing, as waters began to recede.
Torrential rains for the last four days caused flooding and landslides in nine cities and districts of the tourist island of Bali and in East Nusa Tenggara province. Rising rivers submerged at least 120 neighbourhoods and resulted in a dozen landslides in several places, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said in a statement on Thursday, with the higher death toll reported by officials on Friday.
