SEROJA (CYCLONE)

✅Tropical cyclone Seroja has ripped across a 1,000km stretch of Western Australia, leaving a trail of damage.

✅Severe Tropical Cyclone Seroja was a deadly tropical cyclone that brought historic flooding and landslides in portions of southern Indonesia and East Timor and later went on to impact Western Australia's Mid-West region, becoming one of the first to do so since Cyclone Elaine in 1999.

✅The name Seroja means lotus in Indonesian.

✅As of 12 April 2021, it is estimated that at least 224 people were killed by the storm, with 181 people in Indonesia, 42 in East Timor, and one in Australia.

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