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Floods in South Asia/ 600 people die

2025-11-29 19:40:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Floods in South Asia/ 600 people die

Torrential rains have caused flooding and landslides in parts of South Asia, killing around 600 people.

Monsoon rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, caused some of the region's worst flooding in years, with millions affected in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Heavy rains began on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday.

"During the flood, everything disappeared. I wanted to save my clothes, but my house collapsed," a resident of Bireuen in Sumatra's Aceh province told Reuters news agency.

With hundreds still missing, the death toll is likely to rise. Thousands of people remain trapped, some waiting on rooftops. As of Saturday, more than 300 people had died in Indonesia and 160 in Thailand. There were also several deaths reported in Malaysia.

In Sri Lanka, which has been hit by a cyclone, more than 130 people have died and about 170 others are missing, officials said.

The extremely rare tropical cyclone, called Cyclone Senyar, caused catastrophic landslides and flooding in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, with homes swept away and thousands of buildings submerged.

Indonesia's disaster agency said on Saturday that nearly 300 people were still missing after floods devastated Sumatra.

"The current was very fast, within a few seconds it reached the road, entered the house," Arini Amalia, a resident of Aceh Province, told the BBC. / CNA, translated by BBC

She and her grandmother ran to a relative's house on higher ground. When she returned the next day to get some belongings, she said the flood had completely engulfed the house.

After waters rose rapidly in West Sumatra and flooded his home, Meri Osman said he was "swept away" and clung to a clothesline until he was rescued.

Bad weather has hampered rescue operations and, while tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, hundreds more are still trapped, Indonesia's disaster agency said.





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