Storm leaves 200 homeless

Storm leaves 200 homeless

BANDUNG, West Java: A storm that hit Ciamis in West Java on
Friday has left 200 people in Cipaku subdistrict homeless.

Cipaku subdistrict chief executive Odang Erwijaya said that
the brief but intense storm had affected three villages in the
subdistrict for approximately three minutes, knocked down
hundreds of mature trees and damaged 4000 houses, 30 of which
were badly damaged.

"The damaged houses belonged to poor villagers who now need
emergency aid to survive and emergency tents to live in
temporarily," he said here on Saturday.

He said the disaster was estimated to have inflicted more than
Rp 1.2 billion (US12,000) in material losses on the villagers.
--JP