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Indonesia cleans up after floods, 3 die in Jakarta

JAKARTA-Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official said.The rains, which also caused serious travel chaos and closed the capital's main airport for several hours, had stopped in Jakarta on Saturday but some areas of the city remained under water."We can confirm three people were killed in West Jakarta after being washed away by the current,"Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said by telephone.Pakaya said that 6,820 people were still in shelters across Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year.Jakarta's main airport had briefly been forced to shut on Friday, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 meters, delaying more than 40 flights."It is back to normal, some delayed flights from yesterday have already departed," Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno-Hatta airport, said.The main airport toll road was still partly closed, he added.Floods and landslides also hit other parts of Java Island, as well as Sulawesi Island and Sumatra Island this week, killing at least 12 people, but the situation had improved in most areas, Pakaya said.

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