Jakarta flood victims face stinking garbage
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Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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More heavy rains struck Indonesia's capital on Thursday, hampering clean-up efforts and piling on misery for hundreds of thousands of people camping under make-shift shelters after days of floods.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and filthy,  Indonesians queued for water in their thousands on Tuesday as  aid deliveries to the tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new  snags.
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Rescuers dug for survivors Wednesday after landslides and floods triggered by days of torrential rain killed dozens of people in western Indonesia.
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Thousands of Indonesians were cleaning up mud and debris from their flood-damaged homes on Saturday after rains eased and waters that forced many into cramped emergency shelters begin to subside.
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At least three people were killed and another 20 have been buried after a rubbish dump collapsed on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the government said.
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Tens of thousands of people displaced by floods that have inundated the Indonesian capital for almost a week were beginning to leave emergency shelters and start the unpleasant task of cleaning out their mud-filled homes.
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Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's  flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in  cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a  week after the city's worst floods in five years.
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By Anthony Deutsch Associated Press  JAKARTA, Indonesia -- In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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MEULABOH/BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and  filthy, thousands of Indonesians queued for water on Tuesday as  aid deliveries to tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new snags  and cases of disease and infection among survivors emerged.
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Workers used dumptrucks to empty scores of bodies into a four-metre-deep hole Wednesday - the first mass grave for more than 800 flood victims - as bystanders shrieked, held noses against the stench and demanded officials collect
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Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers resumed a grim hunt Thursday for victims of landslides and floods on Java island that have left more than 130 people feared dead, officials said.
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WELSH householders were faced with the heartbreaking job of clearing up yesterday after their homes had been flooded for the second time in under a year.
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Two people were killed after a garbage   dump they were sifting through collapsed on them near the   Indonesian capital, a police official said on Friday. Media   reports said 22 others may be missing.
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Slow drainage of the flooded Indonesian capital of Jakarta hit a setback Tuesday when heavy rain began and water levels in the city stopped receding.  Officials said at least 36 people are known dead, and thousands of others were camping out on the roofs of their homes.
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Rescue workers stepped up a hunt Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia's Java island and left thousands homeless, an official said.