Jakarta: The situation is getting worse and death toll in the Floods and landslides in Indonesia reached to  59. Heavy rain pounded Sulawesi island and forced thousands to flee their homes.

Syamsibar, head of South Sulawesi's disaster mitigation agency said ,"I've never seen something this bad  this is the worst," He further added that 25 people were still missing. Talking about the situation, Syamsibar said, lashed by the heavy rain, rivers swelled and burst their banks, inundating dozens of communities in 11 districts of southern Sulawesi. Parts of the provincial capital Makassar have also been affected. Gowa district suffered the heaviest casualties, with 44 people found dead.

Talking about casualities,  The death toll stood at 30 on Thursday evening but now it has reached to 59.  Last year, flash floods and landslides killed at least 22 people in several districts across Sumatra island, while a dozen died when an avalanche of mud and rock cascaded down a steep slope in central Java, Indonesia's main island.

In 2016 aslo about 50 people died when heavy downpours sent torrents of water, mud and rock into villages.