A senior official at Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said on Saturday that fatalities recorded from massive flood in the capital city in the last few days have increased to 14 as two more bodies were discovered by rescue teams.

BNPB Spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said one dead body was found on the bank of Ciliwung below a bridge in Kampung Melayu, South Jakarta on Friday afternoon.

"Another body was evacuated from the basement of the UOB Building in Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, early today," he added.

The three-level of basement in the office building was submerged by flood on Thursday. Works to suck out water that trapped in the basement is still underway at the moment.

The agency previously on Friday said that the flood in affecting all five municipalities in the capital city has claimed 12 lives since Tuesday. The latest two body finding have added the tolls from the flood to 14.

He said most of the fatality during the flood was caused by electrocution. Sutopo said that the massive flood following heavy downpour in the capital city and neighboring areas affected 32 subdistricts and 102 villages in the capital city. It also forced 18,018 people seek refuge.

The Central government and Jakarta administrator had imposed alert emergency status in the capital city in order to facilitate relief aids for the refugees.

The flood had paralyzed government and business activities as more than 50 cm-high of water from flood inundated prominent roads in the capital city, disrupts the transportation. Endi

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