SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and boy or girl just 80 meters, or 260 ft, again from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Sumatra’s Barisan Mountains down to the Indian Ocean coastline of West Sumatra province. “There used to be a surau at the back right here,” Bendri told Mongabay Indonesia at the ruins of his house, applying the Malay word for an Islamic prayer hut. “It’s vanished — there’s no trace of it remaining.” Intense rainfall more than Sumatra on the evening of March 7 activated fatal flash flooding that killed at the very least 30 folks in two districts of West Sumatra. To start with responders arrived in Batu Balah, Bendri’s village, to obtain what seemed like a war zone. Boulders and trees ended up carried downriver by the torrent, pulverizing properties and snatching lives in the village. Houses in South Pesisir, West Sumatra, were being hit by flash floods and landslides. Graphic by Jaka Hendra Baittri/Mongabay Indonesia. Officers from Indonesia’s catastrophe mitigation agency, the BNPB, mentioned the landslides and flooding had destroyed 29,000 homes throughout West Sumatra’s South Pesisir district, which encompasses Batu Balah. Moments just before the flood destroyed Bendri’s residence, the waves of mud, rock and particles smashed into the village of Langgai, located 5 kilometers (3 miles) upriver. Outside the tent established up for evacuees, Langgai resident Ria cried and fainted. Men and women picked her up and carried her back into the tent, her house because the disaster struck. The torrent killed her spouse and other household customers. Ria’s kid,…This write-up was at first revealed on Mongabay