A government official says rescuers have found three more bodies, bringing the death toll from a landslide in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra to 14, including four children. That raises the national toll to 19.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said Monday that rescuers are searching for six other villagers buried under mud and rocks following the early Sunday landslide in Tanjung Sani village of Agam district. Two of the missing are children.
The other five people were killed Saturday when a rain-triggered landslide swept through a drilling field in neighbouring Jambi Province.
Seasonal downpours cause frequent landslides and flashfloods each year in Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains
Tuesday 29 January 2013
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