36 killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia

At least 36 people, many of them children, have been killed and dozens are missing after flooding and landslides in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province.

Incessant rains over the past two days inundated rice paddies and damaged hundreds of houses in five provincial districts in the central Indonesian region.

The worst hit was the Sinjai District on the province’s eastern coast, where 31 people were found dead, more than a dozen were missing and 10 others were in critical condition.

Djoko Subroto, a police spokesman in the province’s capital Makassar, about 1,000 miles north-east of Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, confirmed the floods and landslide in Sinjai, but could not provide details.