At Least 58 Killed After Indonesia Dam Bursts In A
Torrential Muddy Water
Muslim World News Updates
27 March 2009
A dam burst its banks near the
Indonesian capital Jakarta early Friday, drowning 58
people in a deadly torrent of muddy water that flooded
hundreds of homes, health ministry officials said.
Dozens were also missing after water broke through the
man-made earthen dam overnight while people were
asleep, giving them little chance to flee a wall of
gushing water that came crashing into low-lying homes.
One resident compared it to a tsunami.
Houses and concrete buildings were flattened and
buckled by the force of the water, which left many
survivors in the Jakarta suburb of Cireundeu trapped
on rooftops waiting to be rescued. "This disaster
happened so suddenly," said Danang Susanto, an
official with the health ministry's crisis centre.
"Because people were sleeping they couldn't get away."
He estimated up to 500 homes were destroyed or
submerged after heavy rains caused the breach in the
earthen dam at the edge of Situ Gintung lake in
Cireundeu. The flooding in some places was six metres
(20 feet) high. "Residents are being evacuated. About
half of them are still on rooftops," said Rustam
Pakaya, who heads the crisis centre.
Television images showed bodies floating through the
twisting streets nearby and water rushing through the
breach in the dam. While authorities said rain caused
the dam collapse, local residents said the decades-old
barrier might have given way for other reasons.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and top ministers
interrupted intense campaigning for legislative
elections to visit the disaster area to inspect the
rescue operations and visit the victims. Health
Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said: "What we are going
to do now is help those who are alive identify the
dead and help prevent diseases that could arise."
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