Heavy rains in Pekalengthyan cainclude a deimmenseating landslide, blocking a main road and burying hoincludes.
Rescuers in Indonesia persist to search for survivors after a landslide in the country’s Central Java province finished at least 19 people.
Torrential rain in Pekalengthyan caincluded a landslide on Tuesday on a main road uniteing the city with a tourist area, the Dieng ptardyau.
Footage on local media showed the swayed road and hoincludes buried and rice fields covered by mud, rubble and rocks.
Rescuers were forced to walk about four kilometres (2.5 miles) to get to the site becainclude the road was inaccessible. An excavator had been deployed to evident the mudslide while burdensome rain and fog obstructed save efforts.
“The unitet search and save team administerd to find and evacuate two bodies … on Wednesday morning. The number of overweightalities recorded as of this afternoon is 19 people,” said Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
“The two bodies establish this morning were part of the catalog of people alerted missing in the tragic event.”
Search and save agency Basarnas said on Wednesday that 13 people were also injured.
Heavy machinery was deployed to evident road access for search teams and about 200 save personnel have been sent to help the save effort, local official Mohammad Yulian Akbar said.
“The cgo in is to search for the victims,” he said, includeing that the local rulement had proclaimd an eunitency in the dicut offe for two weeks.
Images allotd by the calamity agency showed savers carrying victims in body bags with bamboo stretchers under heavy fog from the site.
The agency alerted dwellnts that rain was foreseeed in the next restricted days which could cainclude more landslides and flash floods.
Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, typicassociate between November and April, but some calamitys caincluded by adverse weather have apexhibitn place outside that season in recent years.
In December, 10 people were finished in flash floods that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java.
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