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- Rescuers were searching for dozens of people still missing on Tuesday (Apr 6) after floods and landslides swept away villages in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, killing at least 120 people and leaving thousands more homeless.
- Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja turned small communities into wastelands of mud, uprooted trees and sent about 10,000 people fleeing to shelters across the neighbouring Southeast Asian nations.
- Indonesia’s disaster management agency said it had recorded 86 deaths in a cluster of remote islands near Timor-Leste, where another 34 have been officially listed as dead since the disaster struck on Sunday.
- Authorities revised down a higher death toll for Indonesia, citing miscommunication with local agencies
- Fatal landslides and flash floods are common across the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season.
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Source: Channel News Asia