Published on : Monday, May 6, 2019
The region is still striving for recovery, a senior disaster official said.
Torrential rains started to lash the province on Sumatra Island on April 26, swelling rivers and bursting banks, head of emergency department of the provincial disaster management agency, Syamsudin, said.
Rescuers were still searching for four missing people, who were believed to be swept away by the flood or caught in landslides in Bengkulu Tengah district.
Efforts were underway to reopen the roads that were blocked, said the official.
Initial data from the national disaster management agency showed that 184 houses, seven educational facilities, and 40 other infrastructural facilities, including roads, bridges and water channels, have been destroyed.
Deforestation and descending catchment area were to blame for the natural disaster, according to the agency.