‘We’ve lost everything’: deaths in Indonesia’s flood-hit Sumatra rise to 72

Heavy monsoon rains have pummelled Indonesia’s Sumatra island over the past week, causing widespread flooding and landslides, and leaving at least 72 dead with hundreds more missing.
Villagers and residential areas were swept away or buried by mudslides, affecting more than 2,000 homes in North Sumatra, according to Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency.
Some 5,000 people across the province had taken refuge in government shelters, the agency added.
On Friday, the agency confirmed 57 deaths in…