Flash flood kills two in Bandung

Flash flood kills two in Bandung

BANDUNG: A flash flood swept through southern Bandung at dawn on
Wednesday killing two people.

Hartiyah, 52 and her grand daughter Widya, 1, died after they
were swept away by the flash flood that hit their house in
Banjaran Wetan subdistrict, Bandung city. They were both sleeping
when the water washed away their house. Their bodies were
recovered a few hours later, several kilometers away.

The flash flood occurred amid heavy rain in the area and the
overflowing of the Citaluktuk River. Banjaran Wetan subdistrict,
where Hartiyah and Widya lived, was the area hardest hit by the
flooding, said chief of Banjaran district police Adj. Comr. Nur
Mulyadi. -- JP