The floodwaters started to rise on Friday evening as a nearby river overflowed, Ginting, a local resident, said here on Saturday.
Flood victims were forced to evacuate their belongings to higher ground following the inundation. In Tanjung Pura, the floodwaters reached a height of up to 50 cm.
Incessant heavy rains have fallen in several villages in Langkat District over the past one week, he said.
The current rainy season has triggered floods and landslides in a number of cities in Indonesia.
Among the flood-affected cities are Jayapura (Papua province), Bekasi, Kerawang, Sukabumi and Indramayu (West Java), Bandar Lampung (Lampung), Tangerang and Lebak (Banten), Jakarta, and East Nusa Tenggara. The natural disaster has claimed a number of lives and threatened rice harvests.
A total of 60.9 million people live in the nation`s 315 districts/cities that are prone to floods, and 124 million live in 270 districts/cities that are vulnerable to landslides during the rainy season.
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