Search and rescue teams have discovered two more bodies in Cililin, West Bandung, bringing the total number of deaths to 10, after a landslide buried nine houses, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said.
Seven others are still missing as some 150 rescuers search through the disaster area. Search efforts were put on hold on Monday after heavy rains triggered another landslide.
“Nine people have not been found yet, including a six-month-old baby girl,” BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. “Six people sustained injuries [in the landslide] and were treated at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung.”
At least 17 people and nine houses were buried in Monday morning’s landslide after heavy rains pounded the subdistrict. The West Bandung mayor has placed the district in a state of emergency until March 31.
The district administration set up some evacuation shelters to help those affected by the disaster.
It is the second deadly landslide to strike Indonesia this month.
Three people were killed and one injured after heavy downpours triggered a landslide in Papua’s provincial capital.
Tuesday 26 March 2013
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