26 lacking, at the very least 13 lifeless in Indonesia landslides

Image Source : AP Rescuers seek for victims at a village hit by Sunday’s landslides in Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia.
Rescuers are looking for 26 folks nonetheless lacking after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, officers stated Tuesday. At least 13 folks had been killed and 29 others injured within the landslides that had been triggered by heavy rain on Sunday in Cihanjuang, a village in West Java’s Sumedang district. Some of the victims had been rescuers from the primary landslide.
The search and rescue operation has been hampered by wet climate across the catastrophe web site, stated National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Raditya Jati.

Seasonal rains and excessive tides in latest days have brought about dozens of landslides and widespread flooding throughout a lot of Indonesia, a sequence of 17,000 islands the place hundreds of thousands of individuals stay in mountainous areas or close to fertile flood plains near rivers.
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