PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Traffic stopped gradually, then suddenly, as the new year approached around an hour’s drive out of the city of Pekanbaru here on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The deluge tore through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday. The floods swept away people and 79 homes and submerged hundreds of houses ...

Beginning Saturday, heavy rain pounded four districts across northern Sumatra, producing the deadly floods and landslides. Juspri Nadeak, disaster chief in hardest-hit Karo district, said the ...

Languages: English. Sixteen bodies have been recovered from beneath heavy mudslides and flood debris in Indonesia, after flash floods devastated mountain villages on Sumatra Island, officials ...

TANAH DATAR, Indonesia — Flash floods and mud slide s in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province killed at least 43 people over the weekend while a search for 15 missing people continued ...

KARO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island, officials ...