Recovery under way after floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Indonesia’s president tells survivors of past week’s devastating floods that assistance is arriving for those successful need, arsenic Asian governments standard up their responses to a catastrophe that has near more than 1,000 dead successful 3 countries.

Hundreds much are missing pursuing flooding and landslides successful the past week, which killed astatine slightest 502 radical successful Indonesia, 335 successful Sri Lanka, and 176 successful Thailand, authorities said.

Some areas of Indonesia stay unreachable aft the catastrophe damaged roads and brought down connection lines, with residents successful affected areas relying connected craft to present supplies.

Flooding displaced 290,700 radical successful North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh provinces, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said.

Sri Lankan authorities said connected Monday that rescuers are inactive searching for 366 missing people. Nearly 148,000 radical are housed successful impermanent shelters aft being battered implicit the past week by downpours that flooded homes, fields, and roads, and triggered landslides – chiefly successful the tea-growing cardinal elevation country.

Authorities successful Thailand worked to cleanable up streets and reconstruct infrastructure, including h2o and electricity, successful the confederate portion of the state wherever terrible flooding affected much than 1.4 cardinal households and 3.8 cardinal people, said the authorities spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat.

The Ministry of Interior volition acceptable up nationalist kitchens to supply freshly cooked nutrient for affected residents, helium added.