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Landslide kills at least 7 people and leaves 82 missing Indonesian west java provincial officials said Saturday.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency stated landslide A village in the West Bandung region southeast of the capital Jakarta was hit by heavy rains.
“The number of missing people is high, so we will try our best today to optimize our search and rescue efforts,” said Abdul Mohali, spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency.
Muhari added that emergency services were able to evacuate at least two dozen people from the affected villages, although heavy rain hampered their efforts.
The Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics has issued a week-long extreme weather warning starting from Friday, with heavy rain expected in West Java. compass, A local news outlet reports. The alert also warns of the potential for widespread flooding and landslides in the area.
Landslides in west Bandung damaged more than 30 houses, the search and rescue agency said, adding that “debris material buried residential areas, causing deaths and affecting local residents”.
Authorities said the landslide hit the village of Pasirlangu around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, burying many houses under mud and rubble.
Indonesia regularly faces deadly landslides triggered by heavy rainfall. The risk of flooding and extreme rainfall is particularly high during the archipelago nation’s rainy season (September to April), according to the weather agency.
At the end of November, heavy rains triggered landslides in two areas of Central Java, killing at least 30 people and displacing more than 900 people.