Major flooding deadly in Indonesia
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JAKARTA, Feb. 3 Floods following two days of downpours in Indonesia have killed five people and forced 100,000 people to flee their homes.Three of the deaths were in the capital city of Jakarta, while two were in Bekasi, officials told the Antara News Service.While Indonesia experiences flooding annually, officials told the BBC that this year's flooding is the worst in five years. The BBC said the heavy rain may not let up for a week.Flood victims were in need of food and clean water. Water service had been disrupted to flood-affected areas, the Jakarta Post reported.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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Flood of '96
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Ferdi Zebua ,
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:10:04 GMT |
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Check out the Jakarta Big Flood of 1996; not as big as 2002, but it was also about 5 years before. Common knowledge says that although floods happen yearly during the rainy season, big ones such as the one happening right now happens every five years.
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