Rain brings clear skies in haze-covered Indonesian provinces

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Jakarta, Muharram 17, 1437, Oct 30, 2015, SPA -- Three days of rain brought clearer skies in Indonesian provinces covered by smoke from forest fires, dpa cited an official and residents as saying Friday. Flights resumed to and from the airport in Jambi, one of the provinces on Sumatra island badly affected by the haze, as visibility markedly improved, said Sutopo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency. Activities at the airport were ground to a halt for two months because of the smog from fires used to clear land for agriculture. "In the coming four days rain is expected to be abundant, so we will make the best of it by artificially creating more rain," he said. The haze crisis has left more than 500,000 people on Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo sick, according to the disaster management agency. --SPA 14:41 LOCAL TIME 11:41 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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