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The death toll from floods and landslides in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province neared 250 on Saturday with another 100 still missing and thousands homeless, police and officials said. The disaster is the latest tragedy to afflict the world’s fourth-most-populous nation in the past few years.

Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 111 people in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province and left a further 101 missing, an official said on Wednesday. The disaster, which has hit at least seven districts in the province after two days of torrential rain, is the latest in a series of similar tragedies to hit the world’s biggest archipelago this year.