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At least 13 dead in Indonesian landslide


Nepalnews
2021 Jan 11, 7:08, Jakarta
Search and Rescue (SAR) team members working at the site of a landslide in Cihanjuang village in West Java, Indonesia, Jan. 10, 2021. (Photo by Septianjar/Xinhua)

The death toll from landslides in a village in Indonesia's province of West Java reached 13 on Sunday, local officials said.

"The rescue team found two other victims who died in the landslides, bringing the death tally to 13 until 1 p.m. (local time)," the head of provincial capital Bandung's Search and Rescue Agency, Deden Ridwansyah, told news portal Detik.com on Sunday.

Rescuers are still conducting searches for more victims in the landslides at Cihanjuang village in West Java on Sunday afternoon.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesman Raditya Jati said the first landslide was triggered by strong rainfalls and unstable soil conditions.

While officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area, another landslide occurred, he added.

Heavy rains were expected to continue in the upcoming days, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has predicted. 


Source: RSS/XINHUANET


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