"By the time Nurdin's neighbours arrived at about 4am on Wednesday to carry the pair to safety, the water was chest-deep. As I was being carried, we got hit by a strong water current, which knocked my neighbour off his feet, and we both plunged into the flood, said Nurdin, 71, who, like many Indonesians, uses a single name. I started to drown as I couldn't stand up, and I thought This is it'."
"which evacuated the pair to a local mosque using a table as a makeshift stretcher. There were no clothes there, so I just had to wear a sarung, Nurdin said. I was there for four days. At the mosque, Nurdin said that another Langsa resident told him that he lived next to a cemetery and had seen bodies rising out of the ground and floating away in the deluge."
At least 631 people have died in floods across the country, with the death toll expected to rise. In Aceh Province, floodwaters burst into homes, forcing residents onto beds and into perilous rescues. A 71-year-old man who uses a wheelchair was carried by neighbours into chest-deep water, struck by a strong current and nearly drowned before reaching shelter. Torrential rains made nearby buildings uninhabitable, prompting army evacuations to a mosque where survivors lacked clothing and shelter. Reports include bodies surfacing near cemeteries and widespread destruction of homes and household belongings.
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