Eight bodies were found on Sunday and a person remained missing after landslides on Saturday night in North Sumatra province of Indonesia, official said.
Heavy rains were blamed for the disaster in Berastagi sub- district of Tanah Karo district at about 20:30 p.m. Jakarta time, said Bowo Asa, senior official of the provincial disaster management and mitigation agency.
"Eight corpses were found this (Sunday) morning. Three of those are children. Another child is still missing," he told Xinhua over phone from the province.
Most of the bodies were pulled from the wreckage of homes at the slope of a hill after being crumpled by piles of soil, said Asa.
Searching for the missing child has been underway, he said.
Heavy rain has often triggered widespread flooding and landslide across much of Indonesia, a vast archipelago country with a population of over 238 million.
Sunday 1 December 2013
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