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Disasters with highest death tolls - 1997 Indonesian Forest Fires

Time: Sep, 997

Place: Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia

Details: The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history. In the middle of 1997 forest fires burning in Indonesia began to affect neighbouring countries, spreading thick clouds of smoke and haze to Malaysia and Singapore. A total of 240 people perished in the wildfires.

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