Jakarta floods leave 16 dead and 20,000 homeless

Torrential rain triggers emergency in Indonesian capital with many losing power amid calls for more action to combat wet season

Torrential rain has caused flash floods to inundate large parts of Indonesia’s capital and nearby towns, killing at least 16 people and forcing thousands more to evacuate.

The deaths were mostly caused by hypothermia, drowning and landslides though one was a teenager who was electrocuted by a power line, the country’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on its website on Thursday morning.

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