165 Residents' Houses In Mukomuko Are Flooded, Regency Government Distributes 1 Ton Of Rice Aid

Residents' houses in Pondok Batu Village, Mukomuko Regency are flooded (ANTARA)

MUKOMUKO - The Government of Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province, provided assistance of more than one tonne of rice for people who were flood victims in this area.

"Since Sunday until now, we have handed over rice assistance to communities in a number of areas. For the time being, the assistance is rice until there is other assistance," said the Acting Head of the Mukomuko Regency Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Ramdani in Mukomuko, Antara, Monday, December 20.

He said it was related to the flood emergency response that hit a number of local areas which submerged about 165 residents' houses. The rice aid was packaged into 230 packages of five kilograms each.

Of the 230 rice packages, 157 of them were for flood victims in Pondok Batu Village, 66 packages for the community in Settlement Unit VII, and seven packages for the community in Lubuk Pinang Village.

He hoped that the rice aid could slightly ease the burden on 230 local families who were victims of the flood. Floods that have occurred in a number of areas since the last few days are now gradually receding.

"Now that the condition of the water that has submerged the houses of residents in Pondok Batu Village has receded, roads can be normal again. "Some houses that were previously submerged are now dry as before," he said.

However, he said, this area is still under flood emergency status for the next day as an effort to recover and anticipate further flooding in this area.

He appealed to the people in the area to be aware of flooding, following the increasing intensity of rain.

"We have to anticipate flooding. The appeal for residents who live in densely populated settlements please pay attention to the sewers do not get clogged," he said.