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Dam collapse in West Java, Indonesia, triggers floods

Xinhua, March 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

A dam has collapsed in West Java province and triggered floods that affected over 15,000 people and caused evacuation, official said here on Tuesday.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the national disaster management agency said that the dam at Cimanuk river at Pilangsari village of Indramayu district collapsed on Monday and forced at least 4,000 people to flee home.

The evacuees badly need emergency relief assistance including food and medicine, Sutopo told Xinhua via phone.

Millions of people in Indonesia, the world's fourth most- populous nation, live in areas near fertile flood plains close to rivers. Endi