Jakarta Floods

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"Storms bring fresh floods to battered Jakarta JAKARTA (Agencies):

Heavy rain inundated low-lying parts of theIndonesian capital before dawn Thursday, compounding the miseryof some 200,000 people already forced from their homes by thecity's worst flooding in years, witnesses said. A break in the rain Wednesday led to some of the filthy waterreceding, enabling residents and emergency workers in this cityof 12 million to begin a daunting clean up operation. But overnight fresh rain in Jakarta and in its upper areas --Depok
and Bogor -- water up again in many parts of the city,according to Elshinta new radio. Many residents have to return to the temporary sheltersThursday because their houses were inundated again Thursdayalthough many of them have began removing muds covering floors oftheir houses Wednesday. "We spent yesterday mopping and scrubbing and now the watershave come again," said Haji Jajan, 52. "I'm tired, but what canwe do?" he was quoted by AP news agency as saying. Harun, a resident of Rawa Barat district in South Jakarta,expressed their disappointment as water inundated again theirhouse after he cleaned up along Wednesday. "I have bought chemical liquid to make sure that my housewould be free from any dangerous microbes. But water came againToday," Harun added. Many residents were still living on the second floors of theirhouses a week after major rivers across the city broke theirbanks. On Thursday waters streamed back into downtown districts, re-flooding local markets, businesses and thousands of houses,witnesses said. The rain caused conditions to deteriorate at emergencyshelters at mosques, where doctors have been treating largenumbers of evacuees complaining of diarrhea, respiratory problemsand skin diseases. At least 50 people have died since last Thursday when therains started, mostly from drowning or electrocution, the HealthMinistry said. Authorities warn that the rainy season is not due to end until the end of February."