(Updates number of people displaced) JAKARTA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Floods in Indonesia's capital have killed three people and displaced nearly 100,000 after two days of torrential rain, a health ministry official said on Saturday. The downpour engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 metres (5 ft) of water, causing travel chaos and forcing the main airport to shut for several hours. The rain stopped on Saturday but some areas remained under water. "We can confirm three people were killed in West Jakarta after being washed away by the current," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said by telephone. Pakaya said later that 96,272 people had been displaced in Jakarta, a city of 14 million including suburbs that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year. Last year about 50 people died in Jakarta, many due to electrocution, and more than 400,000 people were displaced after days of heavy rain caused some of the city's worst ever floods. Jakarta's main airport had been forced to shut for part of Friday, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 metres (yards), delaying more than 40 flights."It is back to normal, some delayed flights from yesterday have already departed," Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno-Hatta airport, said. The main airport toll road was still partly closed, he added. Floods and landslides also hit other parts of Java Island, as well as Sulawesi Island and Sumatra Island this week, killing at least 12 people, but the situation had improved in most areas, Pakaya said.(Reporting by Telly Nathalia; Editing by Ed Davies)
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