PADANG, Indonesia: Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday (Dec 1) to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.
Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week.
Arriving in North Sumatra on Monday, Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto said "the worst has passed, hopefully".
A fisherman's boat is seen washed up ashore in the aftermath of flash floods in Meureudu, Pidie Jaya district in Indonesia's
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