JAKARTA (AP): Police and villagers dug through mounds of earth Monday searching for survivors or bodies after twin landslides struck Indonesia's Java island, killing at least 12 people, officials said.
The deadliest of the two landslides occurred Sunday close to Magelang in central Java province. Eight people working on an irrigation project were killed and two others were missing, said Rustam Pakaya of the health ministry's disaster crisis center.
In west Java, four people digging for sand on a hillside were killed in a second landslide, a local government official said.
Seasonal downpours cause dozens of landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a vast chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
Earlier this month, floods in the capital, Jakarta, killed almost 100 people and paralyzed large sections of the city.
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