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Floods in South Asia leave nearly 600 dead, hundreds still missing

2025-11-29 21:50:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Floods in South Asia leave nearly 600 dead, hundreds still missing
Floods in South Asia leave nearly 600 dead

Search and rescue operations are continuing in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, with hundreds of people still missing.

As the BBC reports , heavy rains have caused flooding and landslides in parts of South Asia, killing around 600 people. The rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, have brought some of the worst flooding in recent years, with millions of people affected in Southeast Asia.

Heavy rains began to fall on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday. “During the flood, everything disappeared,” a resident of Bireuen in Aceh province told Reuters. “I wanted to save my clothes, but the house collapsed.”

With hundreds of people still missing, the death toll is expected to rise. Thousands are still trapped, some still waiting to be rescued on rooftops.

On Saturday, November 29, more than 300 people were reported dead in Indonesia and 160 in Thailand. Several fatalities were also reported in Malaysia.

In Sri Lanka, which has been hit by Cyclone Ditwah, over 130 people have died and around 170 are missing.

Tragedy in Indonesia

An extremely rare tropical cyclone, named Cyclone Senyar, caused catastrophic landslides and flooding in Indonesia, wiping out homes and inundating thousands of buildings. Indonesia's disaster agency said on Saturday that nearly 300 people were still missing after floods devastated Sumatra.

"The current was very fast, in a few seconds it reached the road, entered the house," a resident of Aceh province, Arini Amalia, told the BBC.

She and her grandmother ran to a relative’s house on higher ground. When they returned the next day to get some belongings, she said the floodwaters had completely engulfed the house: “It’s already submerged.”

After the rapid rise of waters in West Sumatra, Meri Osman said she was "swept away" and caught on a clothesline until she was rescued.

Bad weather has hampered rescue operations, and although tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, hundreds more remain stranded, Indonesia's disaster agency said.

The situation in Thailand

In Thailand's southern Songkhla province, water rose as high as 3 meters and at least 145 people lost their lives in one of the worst floods of the decade.

In the 10 provinces hit by the floods, more than 160 people have been killed, the government said on Saturday. More than 3.8 million people have been affected.

The city of Hat Yai experienced 335 mm of rainfall in a single day, the heaviest in 300 years. As the water receded, authorities recorded a significant increase in the death toll.

At a hospital in Hat Yai, staff were forced to move bodies into refrigerated trucks after the morgue became overloaded.

"We were stranded in the water for seven days and no agency came to help us," resident Thanita Khiawhom told the BBC.

The government has promised relief measures, including compensation of up to two million baht ($62,000) for families who lost relatives.

Malaysia and Sri Lanka also affected

In neighboring Malaysia, the death toll is lower but the damage is just as devastating. Floods have left parts of the northern state of Perlis underwater, with two people dead and tens of thousands displaced.

Sri Lanka is also facing one of the worst natural disasters in recent years, and the government has declared a state of emergency.

More than 15,000 homes have been destroyed and about 78,000 people have been forced to seek temporary shelter, officials said. They added that about a third of the country is without electricity or running water.

Meteorologists have said that the extreme weather in Southeast Asia may have been caused by the interaction of Typhoon Koto in the Philippines and the rare formation of Cyclone Senyar in the Strait of Malacca.

The region's annual monsoon season, usually between June and September, often brings heavy rainfall. Climate change has altered storm patterns, including the intensity and duration of the season, bringing heavier rainfall, flash flooding and stronger winds.


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