Death Toll Rises From Jakarta Floods [1]
The Wall Street Journal - 1/18/13, By Made Sentana and Ben Otto
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A man carrying a bucket walks past sandbags as workers pump water out of the Jalan Thamrin boulevard in central Jakarta on Friday. Bloomberg News
JAKARTA, Indonesia—More rain was forecast for the Indonesian capital this weekend, as the death toll climbed from severe flooding that is expected to cost businesses tens of millions of dollars, underscoring infrastructural shortcomings testing the limits of the city's economic boom.
Drownings, landslides and flood-related electrocutions have killed at least 11 people, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said Friday. Nearly 20,000 people have been forced from their homes by flooding across the greater Jakarta metropolitan area since heavy rains began Sunday, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
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