JAKARTA --Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least three lives and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning inundated both residential and commercial areas across the capital. Sixteen-year-old Alvico Arif Ardana died from an apparent electric shock after floodwaters inundated his residential complex in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday, said Jakarta Police spokesperson Sr. Com. Yusri Yunus. "The witness, a neighborhood unit [RT] head, received information from residents that someone had been electrocuted," he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday. He added that the victim had been found close to a...
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