Hundreds of houses were inundated in the disaster, Suhaimi, a local resident said on the phone Saturday.
Students were forced to stay at home because their schools were also flooded, he said.
The seven affected villages are Gampong Baro, Paya Baro, Pasie Delima, Pasie Timoe, Tepie Ara, Pasti Tolak Bala, and Gampong Paya.
The inundated schools are State Junior High School-4 Teunom and State Elementary School Tepin Hasan.
During 2010, Teunom Sub District had been flooded for at least six times.
Meanwhile, in Bali Province, floods had inundated 475 houses in three villages of Gerokgak subdistrict, Buleleng district, last Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 22 and 23).
The three villages were Tinga-Tinga, Celukan Bawang, and Pengulon, Head of Buleleng district`s disaster management division, Nyoman Astasemadi, said.
There were 108 flood-hit houses in Pengulon. As a result, many of its residents took refuge to safer places, such as the village head`s office, he said.
Forty seven houses in Tinga-Tinga village were also submerged by 1.5-meter-high flood water. A primary school building collapsed after being carried by the flood water currents, he said.
The village, whose residents suffered most, was Celukan Bawang because 320 houses were inundated and a landslide buried a house of a villager named Made Atas, he said.
Earlier, flash floods had hit a number of houses in Bone Bolango regency and Gorontalo, northern Sulawesi, with the most serious damage suffered by Panggulo village, Botupingge sub-distriact.
In the worst seriously hit village at least four houses had been seriously damaged and scores of others lightly.
The roads had also been damaged seriously by the floods carrying rocks, sand and woods.
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