{"id":289649,"date":"2025-11-29T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:05:08","slug":"at-least-460-killed-in-south-east-asia-floods-and-landslides-reports-say-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289649\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 460 killed in south-east Asia floods and landslides, reports say | Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in south-east Asia reportedly climbed past 460 on Saturday as clean-up and search-and-rescue operations got under way in Indonesia<\/a>, Thailand and Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Heavy monsoon rain overwhelmed swathes of the three countries this week, killing hundreds and leaving thousands stranded, many on rooftops awaiting rescue.<\/p>\n

Rescuers in Indonesia were struggling to reach the worst-affected areas of Sumatra island, where at least 303 people have died and 279 are still missing.<\/p>\n

Rescuers in North Sumatra recovered another 31 bodies on Saturday, a spokesperson for the provincial police said.<\/p>\n

In West Sumatra 61 fatalities had been recorded, and 90 people were missing, a spokesperson for the region\u2019s disaster mitigation agency said late on Friday. In Aceh province the death toll was at least 35 people, according to figures released by the agency.<\/p>\n

More than 3,500 police were deployed to search for people still missing and help distribute aid to more than 28,400 who fled to temporary government shelters across the province.<\/p>\n

About 80,000 people have been evacuated and hundreds are still stranded in three provinces across Sumatra island, Indonesia\u2019s western-most area, the national disaster agency\u2019s head, Suharyanto, told a news conference, adding that a cloud-seeding operation would begin in West Sumatra to reduce the rainfall, most of which had already subsided by Saturday.<\/p>\n

In Thailand<\/a>, more than 1.4 million households \u2013 3.8 million people \u2013 have been affected by the floods, the department of disaster prevention and mitigation said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In southern Thailand, water levels reached 3 metres in Songkhla province and killed at least 145 people in one of the worst floods in a decade.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s death toll across eight provinces has risen to 162, the government said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Damaged cars and motorbikes as flood waters begin to recede in Hat Yai, in southern Thailand\u2019s Songkhla province. Photograph: Narong Sangnak\/EPA<\/p>\n

Workers at one hospital in hard-hit Hat Yai moved bodies into refrigerated trucks after the morgue exceeded capacity.<\/p>\n

The prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, visited a shelter for evacuees in the district on Friday and told reporters he acknowledged the government\u2019s shortcomings in flood management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really have to apologise to them for letting this happen during the time I am in government,\u201d he said in footage broadcast on AmarinTV.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next step is to prevent the situation from deteriorating,\u201d he added, announcing a two-week timeframe for the district\u2019s clean-up.<\/p>\n

The Thai government rolled out relief measures for those affected by the flooding, including compensation of up to 2m baht ($62,000, \u00a346,800) for households that lost family members.<\/p>\n

As flood waters receded, shop-owner Rachane Remsringam picked through rubbish strewn between the aisles of his general goods store, lamenting hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.<\/p>\n

His store, Madam Yong, was looted and vandalised in the wake of the disaster, he said.<\/p>\n

There has been growing public criticism of Thailand\u2019s flood response and two local officials have been suspended over their alleged failures.<\/p>\n

An MP from the opposition People\u2019s party criticised the administration, saying it \u201cwrongly estimated the situation\u201d and made \u201cerrors in handling the flood crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

One victim of the flood, Amphorn Kaeophengkro, told Reuters she and seven members of her family spent 48 hours perched atop a table, a window frame and a washing machine on the second floor of her home in the city of Hat Yai, which received 335mm (13 inches) of rain last Friday \u2013 its highest single-day tally in 300 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t thinking about anything else except surviving,\u201d the 44-year-old told Reuters by candlelight, as her family began to clean their dwelling after the water had receded.<\/p>\n

Two people were killed in Malaysia<\/a> by flooding caused by heavy rain that left stretches of northern Perlis state under water.<\/p>\n

The annual monsoon season, typically between June and September, often brings heavy rain, triggering landslides and flash floods.<\/p>\n

A tropical storm has exacerbated conditions, and the tolls in Indonesia and Thailand rank among the highest in floods in those countries in recent years.<\/p>\n

Climate change has affected storm patterns, including the duration and intensity of the season, leading to heavier rainfall, flash flooding and stronger wind gusts.<\/p>\n

Reporting from Reuters and Agence France-Presse in Padang, Indonesia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in south-east Asia reportedly climbed past 460 on Saturday as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-289649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}