Jakarta: Rescuers are searching for 23 people still missing after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday.
The search and rescue operation has been hampered by rainy weather around the disaster site, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Raditya Jati.
Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains close to rivers.
AP
