Flash flood hits C. Java

Flash flood hits C. Java

SEMARANG: A two-meter-high flash flood hit eight villages in
Tayu, Pati, Central Java, when the Tayu river overflowed Friday.

Information obtained Saturday from an on-duty officer at the
Pati center for natural disaster management stated that the eight
villages affected by the flood were Tayu Kulon, Tayu Wetan,
Keboromo, Dororejo, Kalikolang, Jepat Lor, Tunggulsari and
Sambiroto.

Two houses were carried away in the flash flood, one owned by
a Tayu Kulon resident and one by a Sambiroto resident, Antara
reported.

Cipto, the owner of the house in Tayu Kulon, and one of his
daughters, Maya, were also carried away by the flood but local
people managed to save them.

According to the officer, another villager, Marsini, an old
woman, was also swept away by the flood and has not been found.

Djoko Suroso, a resident of Tayu Wetan, said that there were
signs of the flash flood at 7.20 p.m. Western Indonesia Time,
when rain, which was at the time not heavy, caused the river to
overflow, but the river subsided some time later.

High rainfall at the slopes of Mt. Muria, however, caused the
level of river water to rise, resulting in the flash flood.

The value of the material losses inflicted is yet to be
calculated.