Dozens Of Houses In Sukabumi Were Damaged By The Tornado

SUKABUMI - Dozens of houses in Sinagarkolot Village, Sukabumi Regency, West Java were damaged by a tornado. The local Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) is still recording the number of affected residents.

"We received temporary data from the Nagrak District Disaster Management Officer (P2BK), the tornado that hit RT 01 and 02, RW 08, Nagrakutara Village, Nagrak District, 50 units of houses were damaged," said the Operations Control Center Manager (Pusdalops). ) Sukabumi Regency BPBD Nanang Sudrajat reported by Antara, Wednesday, March 9.

Information gathered from the Sukabumi Regency BPBD officers for the number of houses that were lightly damaged as many as 10 units, moderately and severely damaged each 20 units so that the total damaged houses were 50 units.

According to Nanang, the damage data is still temporary and there may be further developments, because until now his party is still collecting data, especially the number of people affected and displaced.

As of Wednesday night, joint officers from elements of BPBD, TNI, Polri, volunteers and SAR potential as well as the community are still working together to clean up building debris and repair damaged houses.

"In addition to destroying a number of buildings, the disaster caused by this tornado also caused several large trees to fall and some fell on people's homes," he said.

However, until now the local BPBD has not received any reports of casualties due to the disaster.

The local BPBD stated that it was possible to set up refugee tents because many houses were not ready to be re-occupied.