Baby, dad reunited as Indonesia toll hits 79
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A BABY trapped under rubble after flash flooding destroyed his home in Indonesia has been reunited with his father after the disaster killed the rest of their family, officials said yesterday, as the death toll hit 79.
The 5-month-old was plucked on Sunday from debris inside a house where his mother and siblings were found dead in the hard-hit town of Sentani in eastern Papua province.
The tot has since been returned to his surviving father.
鈥淲e took the baby to the hospital and had him treated,鈥 Papua military spokesman Muhammad Aidi said.
鈥淗e was in stable condition and has been released. The father was distressed but happy to be reunited with his baby.鈥
The news came as Indonesia鈥檚 disaster agency raised the official death toll from 58 on Sunday, with more than three dozen people still missing.
Indonesia鈥檚 military took up the grim task of putting the corpses of mud-caked victims into body bags, after flash floods and landslides ripped through the area.
Scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain on Saturday.
鈥淭he death toll could still go up,鈥 national disaster agency鈥檚 Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
Rescuers battled mud, rocks and fallen trees in the hunt for survivors, as medical personnel treated the wounded in makeshift tents. 鈥淧eople need food, blankets, clean clothes and clean water,鈥 Nugroho said.
In Doyo, one of the most affected areas, a housing complex was littered with huge rocks believed to have rolled down from a nearby mountain, while sediment and waste were piled up on the pavement.
The military said 5,700 people have been evacuated from the hard-hit area. 鈥淲e have over 1,000 personnel searching for more victims,鈥 Aidi said.
Indonesia has declared a 14-day state of emergency in response to the floods.
Papua shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia.
Flooding is common in Indonesia, especially during the rainy season which runs from October to April.
In January, floods and landslides killed at least 70 people on Sulawesi island, while earlier this month hundreds in West Java province were forced to evacuate when torrential rains triggered severe flooding.
Meanwhile, three people were killed after an earthquake on Sunday triggered a landslide on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, next to Bali.
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