NEWS ITEM PART 2

Banjir Bandang Disconnects Trans-Nabire Road, procuring food for stagnant refugees.

 Liputan6.com, Papua - Team of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Mimika Regency, Papua Province, together with volunteers temporarily evacuated while the head of the family settled in Iwaka Village and Trans-Nabire Road to a safe location after the flash floods 25/7) until Sunday afternoon .

 Mimika BPBD head Yosias Lossu said that residents of Kampung Iwaka, who had been flooded by air, were temporarily evacuated to the Iwaka YPPK elementary school building.

 To dispute families who live on Trans-Nabire Road, it is contradictory in PT PAL 2 and PT PAL 1 while being evacuated to the homes of their relatives.

 

Some residents have fled to the side of the road that was not inundated by air since a few weeks ago by building makeshift houses or temporary shelter. "As of tonight I am still on the Trans-Nabire Road to check on the residents there. This afternoon we have sent staff there to help evacuate residents to safer places. 

The information I received from the staff, now the flood has not subsided, the road Severe damage is quite long and cannot be passed by vehicles, "Lossu said in Timika, Sunday (07/26/2020), reported by Antara. 

He said, until now the delivery of food for refugees on the Trans-Nabire Road could not be done and was carried out on Monday (7/27) afternoon after the overflowing river water receded. Lossu accepted residents on the Trans-Nabire Road in dire need of food supplies, requiring residents who lived across the Kamora and Mimika Rivers and the Overflow Movers to cut the Trans-Nabire road segment. "The most urgent needs right now, namely shelter and food ingredients, as well as proper clothing

The floods that are starting to recede we will go

 in there to inventory more affected tourists and whatever is needed by those who are most suitable at this time," he said. Is for Iwaka Village, the BPBD team has entered the village so that the flood affected residents. It is planned that logistical assistance from the Mimika Regency Government will soon be supplied to Iwaka Village on Monday (7/27).