<span style="color: #222222;">In Indonesia, torrential rains have triggered flash floods and landslides in Sumatra island, killing at least 27 people. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji said in Jakarta, a flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 29 children were swept away yesterday afternoon.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said rescuers retrieved the bodies of 11 children from mud and rubble hours later.  <br />''<br />''The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said rescuers and villagers managed to rescue 17 other children and several teachers  yesterday and pulled out the body of a child today near Aek Saladi river, close to the school. </span><br />''