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Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 16 people in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province.

Friday marked 20 years to the day of the Sago Mine Disaster, an explosion that occurred in Upshur County on Jan. 2, 2006, trapping 13 miners underground.