Many Children in Jakarta Remain at Risk Following Severe Flooding
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A one-day-old baby girl sleeps next to her brother under a fly-over after fleeing from their flooded house in Jakarta February 5, 2007. Photo: REUTERS/ENNY NURAHENI, courtesy www.alertnet.org |
Jakarta, Indonesia (February 14, 2007) — Save the Children is responding to the needs of displaced children and their families in Jakarta, Indonesia, where severe flooding has forced over 330,000 from their homes and has killed at least 84 people.
Torrential rains in the Indonesian capital have caused widespread flooding — the worst the city has seen in five years. The exceptionally heavy annual rains, which began late last week, have caused flood water levels to rise rapidly during the past week.
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