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