Jakarta Globe, AFP, Mar 29, 2015
Jakarta. Twelve people were killed and 11 houses buried after a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said on Sunday.
Rescuers carry a dead body after a landslide hit Jemblung village, in Central Java's Banjarnegara district, on Dec. 13, 2014. (EPA Photo/Gugus Mandiri) |
Jakarta. Twelve people were killed and 11 houses buried after a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia’s main island of Java, an official said on Sunday.
The
landslide hit Tegal Panjang village in Sukabumi district in west Java late on
Saturday after a particularly heavy downpour, National Disaster Mitigation
Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
“We found
all 12 bodies,” he said in an update, revising the earlier death toll of 10 and
two missing.
He said
heavy rain caused a cliff to collapse and hit the village, burying 11 houses.
Landslides
triggered by heavy rains and floods are common in tropical Indonesia during the
rainy season.
The BNPB
estimates around half the country’s 250 million population lives in areas prone
to landslides.
The vast
Indonesian archipelago is one of the most natural disaster-prone nations on
Earth, and is also frequently hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Agence France-Presse
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