At least 9 dead, 10 missing after landslide in Indonesia
16 February, 2021
Torrential rains triggered a landslide found on Indonesia’s primary island of Java, killing at least nine persons and leaving 10 other folks missing, as emergency personnel digging with their bare hands and farm tools desperately sought to unearth additional victims on Monday (Feb 15), officials said.
Twenty-one people were primarily reported missing following the disaster struck Sunday evening on a rural portion of East Java.
A huge selection of rescuers, including soldiers, law enforcement and volunteers, took portion in the seek out the missing found in the village of Selopuro found in East Java’s Nganjuk district, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Raditya Jati.
Indonesia's Search and Rescue Firm said it had found nine bodies, but was still looking for 10 others.
The other two persons had been rescued.
"We cannot bring heavy apparatus to the website of the landslides currently. However, we are trying to create our approach," the East Java Search and Rescue Company advised AFP in a written statement.
The landslide also seriously damaged eight homes, said the agency.
Rescuers on Mon found bodies buried under up to 6m of mud, Nganjuk district chief Novi Rahman Hidayat said.
Twenty-one people were in the beginning reported missing, but three individuals were rescued after the disaster on a rural component of East Java AFP/HANDOUT
Pasuruan, a town found in the same province, was also flooded after a good river overflowed because of the large rains, forcing a lot more than 350 persons to flee their homes, the agency added.
Severe flooding was as well reported in many other provinces found in the vast archipelago country over the past few days.
Seasonal downpours cause recurrent landslides and floods every year on Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of folks are in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
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