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Flash floods kill nine in Indonesia
May 7, 2011, 4:08 GMT
Jakarta - A flash flood swept through villages in the Indonesian province of West Java, killing at least nine people and damaged dozens of homes, media reports said Saturday.
Hours of torrential rain caused rivers in the Garur district to overflow their banks and submerge thousands of homes, the Vivanews.com online news portal said.
Nine people were killed and thousands of residents were fleeing their homes for safety, other news reports said, adding that the floods were also collapsed many power lines.
Floods and landslides are common in Indonesia, which is densely populated and prone to frequent heavy rains. Environmentalists warned that logging and a failure to reforest denuded land in the world's fourth-most populous country are often to blame.
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