Three Europeans, Singaporean among dead in Indonesian flooding

JAKARTA (AFP) Nov 03, 2003
Three Europeans and a Singaporean were among the 67 fatalities of a flash flood which ripped through a resort town in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, a rescue official said Monday.

A 20-year-old German woman, a 40-year-old Austrian woman, a Swiss man aged 30 and a 67-year-old Singaporean man are among those confirmed dead, rescuer Johnny Sitorus said from the provincial capital Medan.

The deaths occurred when a river swollen by flash floods smashed through resort cottages in the town of Bohorok following hours of heavy rain.

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