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Jakarta Floods Forces Tens of Thousands Out of Their Homes

Description:One of Jakarta's main throughfares - now a river of red mud. Unusually heavy monsoon rains have submerged parts of the Indonesian capital in waist-deep water. The flooding has made around 20,000 people homeless, and killed at least 11. A spokesman from Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency says the flood waters covered over 40 kilometres of the city of 12.5 million people. (1:00)

Source: Reuters

Tags: reuters , agency , National Disaster