Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Cianjur | Fri, 11/14/2008 2:11 PM
As many as 15 residents of Nyalindung in Cianjur regency, West Java, are feared dead after their homes were buried by a landslide on Thursday evening resulting from recent torrential rain.
The landslide damaged scores of houses, but most residents managed to evacuate in time.
Around 100 police officers, military personnel, volunteers and residents were at the scene attempting to manually evacuate the remaining residents. Their efforts faced difficulties because necessary heavy equipment could not be brought to the isolated area.
"All of the landslides occur in high soil shifting zones," head of the Bandung Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center, Surono, said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com on Friday.
Surono added that the West Java towns South Cianjur, South Garut and Sukabumi were at high risk of similar incidents.
"We implore residents living in these high-risk areas to be on alert and to be ready to evacuate immediately upon warning," Surono said.
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