DEATH TOLL OF DAM BURST DISASTER REACHES 28

Jakarta, March 27 (ANTARA) - At least 28 people were killed and many others were feared still missing after Situ Gintung dam on the outskirt of Jakarta burst in the wee hours of Friday.

The dead victims were taken to Fatmawati Hospital, Adjunct Senior Commissioner Chryshnanda, a spokesman of the Jakarta Police, said here on Friday.
"Up to now, officers of the South Jakarta Police with the help of local people and concerned officers still evacuate and search for victims," he said.
A number of people were injured, seven houses were swept away, tens of others were destroyed, and one car was stuck on a three, he said.
The dam located at Cirendeu, Ciputat, Tangerang District, south of Jakarta, burst at around 3 am following heavy rains for several hours on Thursday afternoon.
Search and rescue officers were trying to rescue residents being trapped in their submerged houses. The survivors were evacuated to higher grounds near the University of Muhammadiyah campus.
Some survivors said that the disaster reminded them of a deadly tsunami which devastated Aceh Province and Nias Island on December 26, 2004.
They said that they had heard loud noises at around 4 am, as if it were a powerful earthquake. They later found out that the noises came from floodwaters coming from the burst Dam.