The catastrophe interrupted electricity and telecommunications services in several areas of this region, where around 70 thousand people live.
At least 11 people died and another five were still missing in Indonesia, after flash floods hit the north of the Celebes islands on Monday.
In a statement, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB, in its Bahasa acronym) referred to “several disasters” in four communities on the Sitaro Islands, in the far north of Celebes, where 11 deaths were recorded and where around 450 people “were forced to evacuate to safer locations”.
The region recorded, on Monday and today, heavy rains that caused floods, flash floods, landslides and strong winds, which led the “local government to declare a state of emergency from January 5th to 18th”, according to the statement.
“The waters have already receded, but joint teams on the ground continue to search for missing victims,” added the BNPB, which released images showing rocks and mud covering some roads and around residential buildings.
The catastrophe interrupted electricity and telecommunications services in several areas of this region, where around 70 thousand people live.
These are the first deadly floods in Indonesia in 2026, after the emergency that hit the island of Sumatra at the end of November, when 1,178 people died due to bad weather.
Meteorological phenomena caused devastation at the same time in Thailand and Sri Lanka, where around a thousand people also died due to numerous river overflows and landslides.
