Indonesian flood victims in camps
Afp, Jakarta
Thousands of people who fled flash floods on the Indonesian island of Sumatra two weeks ago are unable to return home as their villages are buried under mud, aid workers said yesterday. Some 400,000 people escaped the floods, with 365,335 people displaced in Aceh province alone as whole villages were swallowed and homes washed away. In the worst-hit district of Aceh Tamiang, more than 12,500 houses and 75 schools were destroyed along with 460 kilometres (280 miles) of road, the official Antara news agency said. "There are no more floods (in Aceh), but residents' homes are still covered with mud up to one meter (more than three feet) deep, so they have to remain in camps," Indonesian Red Crescent spokesman Dharma Wijaya told Antara.
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