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- INDONESIA TSUNAMI RELIEF SLOWED BY BAD WEATHER 29 October 2010
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New threats Aasia, Hanifa and Sharifa are among the flood's hidden victims — their passing almost unnoticed. The fear is that many more will be at risk in the months ahead. Aid agencies say many promises of help have receded with the flood waters. They warn that funds are drying up, as new threats are emerging. Diseases are spreading, and winter is closing in on the 20 million flood victims — seven million of whom still do not have shelter. TEXT 5 INDONESIA TSUNAMI RELIEF SLOWED BY BAD WEATHER 29 October 2010 Bad weather is again obstructing efforts to get aid to the survivors of Monday's tsunami in Indonesia. Heavy rain and high tides are making it hard for boats to deliver supplies to the isolated Mentawai islands off the west coast of Sumatra. More than 400 people are confirmed dead, but many bodies have yet to be recovered from coastal areas and more than 300 people are reported to be still missing. The tsunami was triggered by a 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake. Disaster-relief officials plan to start dropping aid by air, but reports say there are not enough helicopters to reach many of the devastated areas. Struggling with devastation The government has pledged millions of dollars for the relief effort, but aid agencies said people on the islands still urgently need food and shelter. Indonesia is also struggling with the devastation caused by this week's eruption of Mount Merapi in central Java, which killed more than 30 people. Disaster official Ade Edward says the 3 m (10 ft) surge is likely to have carried many of the missing out to sea, or buried them in the sand. As the scale of the tsunami disaster became clear on Thursday, Mr. Edward painted a bleak picture of the chances of finding more survivors. Analysis There are still many of the aid relief [supplies] stored here in Sikakap, the capital district of Mentawai, while many other aid relief [supplies] are still stored in Padang, the capital city of the province of West Sumatra. Transportation is still the biggest obstacle in this process: boats are very limited and aircraft are almost not available — 51 — This poses a very significant problem because the aid cannot be transported quick enough from Padang or any other city. At the same time, the aid that has arrived here in Sikakap cannot be dispersed to worst-affected areas. “Of those missing people, we think two-thirds of them are probably dead, either swept out to sea or buried in the sand”, he told the AFP news agency. “When we flew over the area yesterday, we saw many bodies. Heads and legs were sticking out of the sand; some of them were in the trees”. He estimated that a further 200 people may have been killed. Indonesia's state-run news agency Antara reported that 468 houses had been completely destroyed by the wave. Village chief Tasmin Saogo told the BBC's Indonesian service that the islanders had begun to bury their dead. “In the village of Sadegugung, there aren't any body bags. In the end, we just lifted them and we buried 95 people today”, he said. Meanwhile, the party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been trying to defuse a growing political row over comments made by one of its senior members. жүктеу/скачать 0,58 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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