A woman has been killed and 12 other people are missing after torrential rains triggered a landslide that buried sleeping villagers on Indonesia's main Java island, an official said Thursday.
Rescuers were digging by hand through mounds of earth in Kudus district, central Java, to reach six houses buried by the landslide as the area was too remote to be reached by heavy machinery.
"The victims were sleeping when the landslide struck," said local disaster agency official Junaidi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.
He said rescuers had so far found the body of a woman after Tuesday's landslide and had also rescued one man alive but 12 people were still missing and feared dead.
Deadly landslides and flooding are common during Indonesia's six-month rainy season, and in the past week several parts of the country have been affected.
Widespread flooding in the capital Jakarta has left 12 people dead and nearly 90,000 displaced, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
The floods that commenced on January 14, have affected 34 subdistricts, 100 urban villages, 444 neighborhoods, 672 families, and a total of 134,662 residents in the capital city, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated on January 21.
Rescuers were digging by hand through mounds of earth in Kudus district, central Java, to reach six houses buried by the landslide as the area was too remote to be reached by heavy machinery.
"The victims were sleeping when the landslide struck," said local disaster agency official Junaidi, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.
He said rescuers had so far found the body of a woman after Tuesday's landslide and had also rescued one man alive but 12 people were still missing and feared dead.
Floodwaters flow pass homes in Jakarta on January 22, 2014. --AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO
Deadly landslides and flooding are common during Indonesia's six-month rainy season, and in the past week several parts of the country have been affected.
Widespread flooding in the capital Jakarta has left 12 people dead and nearly 90,000 displaced, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
The floods that commenced on January 14, have affected 34 subdistricts, 100 urban villages, 444 neighborhoods, 672 families, and a total of 134,662 residents in the capital city, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated on January 21.
