JAKARTA ¨C Officials in disaster-hit parts of Indonesia reported shortages of food, shelter and medicine as the death toll from floods reached 950 on Monday following weeks of heavy rain.
Tropical storms and monsoon rains have pummeled Southeast and South Asia, triggering landslides and flash floods from the rainforests of Indonesia's western Sumatra island to the highland plantations of Sri Lanka.
"Everything is lacking, especially medical personnel. We are short on doctors," Muzakir Manaf, governor of Indonesia's Aceh province, told reporters late Sunday.
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