Indonesia resumes search for about 80 missing after landslide kills 10

The decease toll from Saturday’s landslide successful a residential country of West Java state has risen to 10.

Indonesian rescuers person resumed searching for immoderate 80 radical inactive missing successful a deadly landslide, aft the ngo coordinator said operations had to beryllium suspended overnight owed to harsh weather.

The decease toll from Saturday’s landslide successful a residential country of West Java state roseate to 10 connected Sunday, according to state-run media, announcing 3 much deaths.

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Triggered by dense rain, the landslide barrelled into villages successful West Java’s West Bandung aboriginal connected Saturday morning, burying residential areas and forcing dozens of radical to evacuate their homes.

The rainfall forced rescue efforts to intermission overnight, ngo coordinator Ade Dian Permana said successful a statement, earlier the operations resumed connected Sunday.

Rescuers were hampered connected Saturday arsenic unstable terrain and rains hindered them from deploying dense machinery, Kompas TV reported, citing authorities.

There were aggregate reports of floods successful West Java, including the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

The floods person caused residents successful heavy affected areas to evacuate to higher crushed oregon unaffected places.

Resident Dedi Kurniawan, 36, said it was the archetypal specified landslide helium had witnessed successful Pasir Langu colony successful a hilly country of the state astir 100km (60 miles) southeast of Jakarta.

“Sometimes we person lone tiny floods from the nearest river, but this clip [the landslide] came from the forest,” helium told the Reuters quality agency.

Harsh conditions

Rescuers, helped by the military, constabulary and volunteers, person been excavating manually.

They are besides deploying drones and canine units to scour the country for victims, according to the nationalist rescue agency.

West Bandung’s politician warned connected Saturday that the terrain was highly hard and the crushed remained unstable.

Floods and landslides are communal crossed the immense archipelago during the rainy season, which typically runs from October to March.

The catastrophe comes aft tropical storms and aggravated monsoon rains precocious past twelvemonth triggered flooding and landslides that killed astir 1,200 radical and displaced much than 240,000 connected Indonesia’s Sumatra island, according to authoritative figures.

Environmentalists, experts and the authorities person pointed to the relation wood nonaccomplishment played successful the flooding and landslides that washed torrents of mud into villages.

The authorities filed aggregate lawsuits pursuing the Sumatra floods, seeking much than $200m successful damages against six firms.

This month, torrential rains battered Indonesia’s Siau island, causing a flash flood that killed astatine slightest 16 people.