Starvation Fears in Flooded Indonesia as More Heavy Rain Looms

Further heavy rain threatened Indonesia’s flood-ravaged island of Sumatra on Saturday as the governor of one hard-hit province warned that the death toll could climb beyond 883 due to starvation. A chain of tropical storms and monsoonal rains has caused widespread devastation across Southeast and South Asia, with landslides and floods affecting regions from Sumatra to Sri Lanka. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam have reported a total of 1,770 fatalities from natural disasters in the past week.