Floods on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali have killed at least nine this week and affected 600 people, blocking off major roads in the capital and disrupting a busy travel destination, officials said on Wednesday.
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Continuous heavy rains between Tuesday evening and Wednesday caused the floods and killed five people in Bali’s capital, Denpasar, Abdul Muhari, the spokesman of the country’s disaster mitigation agency, said in a statement.
Four more people were killed in the regions of Jembrana, Gianyar and Badung while two were still missing.
Out of 600 people affected, nearly 200 had been evacuated to schools and mosques because their houses were still flooded, the agency said.
The floods brought down two buildings in Denpasar, said I Nyoman Sidakarya, the head of the island’s search and rescue agency.
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