To safer ground: Villagers evacuating the flood-hit Kapuas Hulu regency in West Kalimantan. Nearly 50 villages and 15,000 residents were affected. — AFP
AT least nine people were killed and dozens more missing after a string of boats capsized in a storm that battered Indonesia’s section of Borneo island, according to a local rescue agency.
The accident happened early Wednesday in waters off the coast of West Kalimantan, where waves as high as five metres swamped a dozen fishing vessels as well as a pair of tugboats.
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