An emergency state of one week has been declared for floods that have left at least 21 dead people.
Rescuers have a search for Bon in Ríos and the debris of devastated villages for survivors of sudden mortal floods that hit two provinces in Indonesia earlier this week, killing at least 23 people and leaving five missing, as Waters gave him love.
The torrential rains during the last four days fell floods and landslides in nine cities and districts of the tourist island of Bali and in the province of East Nusa Tengara. Rising Rivers immersed at least 120 neighborhoods and resulted in a boxes of deadlines in several places, the spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Abdul Muhari, said on Friday.
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Muhari said rescuers had recovered seven more bodies as the floods backed up in Bali, which brought the number of flood deaths on the island to 16. Rescue workers are still looking for a missing resident, he added.
A one week emergency was declared to mobilize additional resources.
As the river levels returned to normal on Thursday, the people in Denpasar, the capital of Bali, left crowded emergency shelters.
The advantage of the authorities of the waters that they backed up to start cleaning the mud and eliminating wet garbage batteries from the streets, while electricity was restored to tens of thousands of residences and businesses.
Indonesia is prone to floods and duration of the kicks of the rainy season, which generally reaches its maximum point between November and March. The recent rain is considered unusually heavy for September.
Suhayanto, head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said at a press conference on Wednesday night that the threat of floods in Bali is over.
He said that up to 600 rescue workers, police and soldiers have been deployed since Wednesday to search for people who still report missing in Bali, since floods have also damaged roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
At the end of Thorsday, some 552 people remained crowded in government shelters in several districts of Bali, the agency said.
“The Indonesian disaster mitigation agency blamed the strong downpour, the landscape of Bali and the activity of the tides such as the cause of the great flood,” said Valdiya Barapotri of Al Jazeera, which reports from Badung Regency in Denpasar.
“However, Balinese sees that there is more in the problem; the rapid growth loaded by the aboutism and poor management of urban planning and waste in Bali are seen as the root of the cause,” said Barapotri, standing before “a three -storey ruin, which shops, who buy deaths of four people.
Barapotri added that “rivers and rice fields in Bali [have been] Replaced by concrete, therefore, Bali lost a large amount of water and recharge area, so when the rain falls, which happens quite frequently on this tropical island, Bali is more prone to floods. “
In the province of East of Nusa Tenggara, rescuers’ dishes were looking for a river around the remote village of Mauponggo in the district of Hagekeo, where floods left tons of mud, rocks and trees.
The rescuers of the day found the body of a 14 -month -old boy, one of the two young children whom rescuers had been looking for, Muhari said. Four other bodies were removed from flood waters or mud on Wednesday.
The head of the local disaster mitigation agency, Agustinus puts, said that the severe climate and the injured land that hindered rescue efforts were exacerbated by the interruption of electricity, clean water and telecommunications networks in 18 villages by flashes.
Floods and landslides in the area also destroyed two bridges, two government offices, a plantation and rice fields, and killed the cattle, he said.