Indonesia flood, earthquake toll touches 79
(WorldNews Indonesia)

The number of people killed after torrential downpours triggered flash floods and mudslides that tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia`s easternmost province has climbed to 79, with dozens of others missing, officials said on Monday. On Sunday, the disaster-prone country was hit by an earthquake, triggering a landslide that hit a popular waterfall on the tourist island of Lombok, killing at least three people and damaging hundreds of homes. The worst-hit area from the flooding was Sentani subdistrict, where tons of mud, rocks and trees from a landslide on a mountain early on Sunday rolled down to a river that burst its...