<p>At least 50 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia's eastern Papua province, an official said Sunday, as rescuers raced to find more victims of the disaster.</p>.<p>The floods in Sentani, near the provincial capital of Jayapura, were triggered by torrential rain and subsequent landslides on Saturday, and also left 59 people injured.</p>.<p>Dozens of homes were damaged by floodwaters, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.</p>.<p>"The number of casualties and impact of the disaster will likely increase as search and rescue teams are still trying to reach other affected areas," he added.</p>.<p>"The floods were likely caused by a landslide." The waters had receded but officials were still trying to evacuate people.</p>.<p>"The joint search and rescue teams are still doing evacuations and not all affected areas have been reached because of fallen trees, rocks, mud and other material," Nugroho said.</p>.<p>Video footage from the scene showed rescuers administering oxygen to a victim who appeared trapped beneath a fallen tree.</p>.<p>Uprooted trees and other debris were strewn across muddy roads, while at Jayapura's small airport a propeller plane lay partly crushed on a runway. Papua shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia.</p>.<p>Flooding is not uncommon in Indonesia, especially during the rainy season which runs from October to April.</p>.<p>In January, floods and landslides killed at least 70 people on Sulawesi island, while earlier this month hundreds in West Java province were forced to evacuate when torrential rains triggered severe flooding.</p>.<p>The Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands is one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide.</p>.<p>Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.</p>.<p>In December, the western part of Java island was slammed by a deadly volcano-triggered tsunami that killed about 400 people.</p>.<p>Also last year, the city of Palu in Sulawesi was rocked by a quake-tsunami disaster that killed thousands, while hundreds of others died in a series of quakes that hit the holiday island of Lombok, next to Bali.</p>
<p>At least 50 people have been killed by flash floods in Indonesia's eastern Papua province, an official said Sunday, as rescuers raced to find more victims of the disaster.</p>.<p>The floods in Sentani, near the provincial capital of Jayapura, were triggered by torrential rain and subsequent landslides on Saturday, and also left 59 people injured.</p>.<p>Dozens of homes were damaged by floodwaters, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.</p>.<p>"The number of casualties and impact of the disaster will likely increase as search and rescue teams are still trying to reach other affected areas," he added.</p>.<p>"The floods were likely caused by a landslide." The waters had receded but officials were still trying to evacuate people.</p>.<p>"The joint search and rescue teams are still doing evacuations and not all affected areas have been reached because of fallen trees, rocks, mud and other material," Nugroho said.</p>.<p>Video footage from the scene showed rescuers administering oxygen to a victim who appeared trapped beneath a fallen tree.</p>.<p>Uprooted trees and other debris were strewn across muddy roads, while at Jayapura's small airport a propeller plane lay partly crushed on a runway. Papua shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia.</p>.<p>Flooding is not uncommon in Indonesia, especially during the rainy season which runs from October to April.</p>.<p>In January, floods and landslides killed at least 70 people on Sulawesi island, while earlier this month hundreds in West Java province were forced to evacuate when torrential rains triggered severe flooding.</p>.<p>The Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands is one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, straddling the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide.</p>.<p>Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are common.</p>.<p>In December, the western part of Java island was slammed by a deadly volcano-triggered tsunami that killed about 400 people.</p>.<p>Also last year, the city of Palu in Sulawesi was rocked by a quake-tsunami disaster that killed thousands, while hundreds of others died in a series of quakes that hit the holiday island of Lombok, next to Bali.</p>