Authorities today informed that minimum of nine people were killed and 34 went missing after a landslide buried more than 30 houses in Indonesia’s Java island. National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said soldiers, police and volunteers fanned out Tuesday across a damaged village of Sirnaresmi in West Java’s Sukabumi district to search the dislodged earth for possible victims. More than 500 rescuers were sent to the area and retrieved eight bodies and the injured from mounds of mud, including an infant who died in the hospital, disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains close to rivers.
At least nine people are killed and 34 others are missing after a landslide strikes a village in Sukabumi, West Java, in Indonesia.