Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Floods, triggered by hours of heavy rains on Friday in Jakarta, claimed three lives in West Jakarta and forced thousands of people to leave their homes, chief of the Crisis Management Center at the Health Ministry, Rustam Pakaya, said on Saturday.
He said the three people who drowned in the floods were identified as Fahmi, a three-year old boy of Kebun Jeruk sub district; Poniyem, a 50-year old woman of Kembangan sub district; and Yuyarnel, a 20-year old man of Palmerah sub district.
Rustam Pakaya said the floods also forced thousands of people in the capital city to evacuate because their homes were inundated by flood waters.
More than 40 locations across Jakarta were inundated by flood waters reaching heights of up to one meter. The flooding forced 360 people in West Jakarta, around 2,000 in East Jakarta, and 600 others in Central Jakarta to abandon their homes and take shelter in school buildings, houses of worship, and other safer areas made available by the Jakarta city administration.
About provisions to preserve the health of the evacuees, Pakaya said Jakarta`s field coordination unit (Satkorlak) had provided them with food and medical assistance, and a number of rubber dinghies.
As of 1 pm on Saturday afternoon gray clouds remained drifting in the sky over Jakarta.
Meanwhile, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said light rain would fall in Jakarta and environs on Saturday evening and last all night.(*)
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