JAKARTA, April 11 (Xinhua): The death toll from tropical cyclone Seroja in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province rose to 177, with 45 other people still missing and several villages remaining isolated as land routes were cut off due to rock slides, a local official said on Sunday.
"The villages are still isolated including those in Kupang district. Tomorrow we will deploy helicopters and ferries to distribute aid to these areas," the province's Deputy Governor Josef Nae Soi said in a virtual press conference jointly held with the National Disaster Management Agency.
The cyclone related deaths in the province were mostly reported in the districts of East Flores, at 72, Lembata, at 47 and Alor, at 28. Six deaths were recorded in the provincial capital Kupang.

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