CIRENDEU, Indonesia
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.A dam burst outside Indonesia's capital sending a 10-foot-high wave of water crashing into a crowded neighborhood, killing at least 91 people and 100 missing. The decades-old dam, which burst at around 2 a.m. on 27th March 2009, following hours of torrential rain, completely flattened 300 houses and inundated at least 200 others.
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The 32-foot-high (10-meter-high) dam, which was holding back around 70 million cubic feet (2 million cubic meters) of water at the Pesanggrahan river, was built up to a century ago, while Indonesia was still under Dutch colonial rule. Some said heavy rains caused the dam to first overflow and then, because the foundation was not made of concrete, to burst.
The 32-foot-high (10-meter-high) dam, which was holding back around 70 million cubic feet (2 million cubic meters) of water at the Pesanggrahan river, was built up to a century ago, while Indonesia was still under Dutch colonial rule. Some said heavy rains caused the dam to first overflow and then, because the foundation was not made of concrete, to burst.
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