Aerial video shows large amounts of wood piled up around the mosque in Batu Bala Village, West Sumatra, on March 15.

The logs were left over from forest clearing by the community that was carried away by water during the flash floods in the area on March 7.

Not only were several parts of the mosque destroyed, but logs of wood were thought to be leftovers from illegal logging. It also damaged many people's houses and caused 29 people to die.

Aerial video shows tens of cubic meters of wood with a diameter of more than 1 meter piled up around the mosque in Batu Bala Village, Sutera District, Pesisir Selatan Regency, West Sumatra, on Friday, March 15, 2024.

Tens of cubic meters of logs were left over from forest clearing by the community, which was carried away by water during the flash floods in the area on Thursday, March 7.

Not only were several parts of the mosque destroyed, but logs of wood were thought to be leftovers from illegal logging. It also damaged many people's houses and caused 29 people to die.

Currently, tens of cubic meters of logs are still lying around the mosque and cannot be cleaned due to the loss of road access to the location.


After the flash flood, tens of cubic meters of logs left over from forest clearing hit a mosque and dozens of houses in West Sumatra