Entire communities across Southeast Asia were clawing through mud and wreckage Friday as the region confronted one of its deadliest climate-driven disasters in years, with more than 1,600 people killed across five countries and warnings of even more destructive rain on the horizon.
Indonesia remains the epicenter of the catastrophe.
National disaster officials say at least 846 people are confirmed dead and 547 others remain missing, most of them in Aceh and Sumatraβs mountainous districts where flash floods roared through valleys with little warning and landslides buried homes before residents could flee.
More than 800,000 Indonesians have now been displaced β a massive humanitarian emergency stretching from village mosques to overcrowded school shelters.
Other countries swallowed by the same chain of storm systems are still counting casualties: Sri La
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