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Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia\u2019s South Sulawesi province have killed at least 15 people after dozens of homes were swept away and roads damaged, the country\u2019s disaster management agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, which began in January, with the problem aggravated in some areas by deforestation, and prolonged downpours caused floods in parts of the country that comprises 17,000 islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The landslides struck Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday, said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia\u2019s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA total of 14 residents died due to floods and landslides in Luwu regency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another area of South Sulawesi, at least one person died and two others were injured, Abdul said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to BNPB, more than 100 houses were seriously damaged and 42 were swept away, while four roads and one bridge were damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera: Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia\u2019s South Sulawesi province have killed at least 15 people after dozens of homes were swept away and roads damaged, the country\u2019s disaster management agency said. Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, which began in January, with the problem aggravated in some areas by deforestation, and prolonged downpours caused floods in parts of the country that comprises 17,000 islands. The landslides struck Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday, said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia\u2019s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), in a statement on Saturday. \u201cA total of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39042,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions\/39042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}