Article: Illegal logging blamed in Indonesian flood disaster

CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-05-2003
Dateline: BUKIT LAWANG, Indonesia
A devastating flood in Indonesia that left more than 200 people dead or missing has driven home a stark warning: rampant logging in Sumatra's forests is harming not only endangered animals but humans too.

Felled trees may have blocked a waterway high in the mountains, causing a huge flash flood when they collapsed Sunday night, a government spokesman said.

The wall of logs, boulders and mud crashed through the village of Bukit Lawang, leveling dozens of cheap inns and restaurants that served visitors to a nearby reserve for endangered orangutans. The hillsides that collapsed may have been ...

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