Fifteen People, Mostly Children, Missing after Floods in Indonesia’s Papua, Official Says

At least 15 people, mostly children, are missing and likely dead after floods and landslides hit Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region after torrential rain, a local official said. Thirteen of the victims were children aged between eight and 17 years old, Alfredo Agustinus Rumbiak, the police chief of the remote Nduga region, told Reuters. The children were heading home after playing volleyball and had attempted to cross a river when the floods happened, he said. They initially took refuge on some big rocks, but the current was too strong and they were swept away. Also, some rocks fell and buried them, Rumbiak said.