DENPASAR, Indonesia — The death toll from flash floods that struck two provinces in Indonesia rose to 15 after rescuers recovered more bodies Wednesday, while six people were missing, authorities said.
Torrential rains beginning Monday caused flooding and landslides in East Nusa Tenggara province and on the tourist island of Bali.
Rescuers on Wednesday were pulled out the bodies of a mother and her child buried under tons of mud in the worst-hit village of Mauponggo and a man in the neighboring village of Loka laba in Nagekeo district of East Nusa Tenggara, officials said. Previously, three members of a family were found dead after their house was swept away and four people were missing in Mauponggo village.
In Bali, rescuers retrieved the body of a woman near the Kumbasari market in Ba