TAPANULI - A follow-up flood has again submerged residential areas after the Tuka River embankment in Hutanabolon Village, Tuka District, Central Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra, was breached on Sunday night.
"Initially it rained at around three o'clock this afternoon, the embankment broke, so the water came here," said the affected resident, Heri Sipahutar (31) to ANTARA, Sunday, March 15.
This condition is further exacerbated by the interruption of electricity in the settlement, so that residents are forced to evacuate to a place that has been provided to get security.
According to his confession, the elderly had been successfully evacuated by the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), not far from the location of the subsequent flood.
With this incident, he asked the government to accelerate the handling of the breached embankment, so that the subsequent flood that reaches the calves of adults would no longer soak the settlements and they could focus on fasting during Ramadan.
According to observations by ANTARA at the scene, residents flocked to a sufficiently strategic and safe location in a predetermined place not far from the flood site.
Meanwhile, not a few are still holding out to drain water from their homes while hoping the water will quickly recede.
At the flood site, personnel from the Yonif TP (Territorial Infantry Battalion for Development) TP 908-Gaja Domba and also Basarnas were seen traveling down the location to evacuate people in need.
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