Banda Aceh (Indonesia), Nov 24: Eleven people have been killed and some 65,000 forced from their homes by widespread flooding in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said today. The floods, caused by heavy rain over the province's West Coast, have hit four districts, West Aceh, southwest Aceh, south Aceh and Singkil, officials said. Eight people have died in southwest Aceh since Wednesday, according to the district's secretary Burhanuddin Sampee, and three have died in West Aceh, an official there said.
Sampee said the whereabouts of five fishermen in southwest Aceh were also unknown after a storm hit the province's West Coast on Wednesday. Hundreds of homes have been swept away in both districts, they said.


The officials said the rains had stopped and water levels, between one and two meters deep in some areas, had began to subside.

Bureau Report