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Dozens dead in flooding in Indonesia

At least 73 peo­ple have died and 60 are miss­ing in In­done­sia be­cause of flood­ing in the province of Papua, in the east. Res­cue op­er­a­tions are on­go­ing, but the rain fallen this week­end con­tin­ues to cause mud­slides in the Sen­tani dis­trict. Trees have been up­rooted, cars swept away, bridges de­stroyed, and water has en­tered houses, hos­pi­tals and pub­lic build­ings ac­cord­ing to the gov­ern­ment.

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