Rescue teams and people move logs that had washed into residential areas as they search for missing victims at Batu Taba Village, Agam Regency, West Sumatra, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Rescuers recovered more bodies on May 14 after flash floods and cold lava flow on Indonesia's Sumatra island over the weekend killed at least 52 people and left another 27 missing, the country's disaster agency said. - AFP
TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP): Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend.
Monsoon rains and a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi caused rivers to breach their banks. The deluge tore through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday.
