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Seven killed, scores missing as landslide hits Indonesia
At least seven people have been confirmed dead and more than 80 others are missing after a landslide hit Indonesia’s main island of Java, disaster officials said on Saturday.
The incident, which was triggered by heavy rainfall, occurred around 2:30 am in a village in the West Bandung area, where several houses were damaged.
Confirming the development, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s national disaster agency, BNPB, Abdul Muhari, said, “A landslide occurred in West Bandung Regency, West Java Province, in the early hours of Saturday, killing seven people.”
“As of Saturday, 10:30 am, dozens of residents were reported safe, and 83 people were still being searched for,” he added.
Floods and landslides are common in Indonesia during the rainy season, which typically runs from October to March.
Tropical storms and intense monsoon rains pummelled parts of South and Southeast Asia late last year, triggering deadly landslides and floods from the rainforests of Indonesia’s Sumatra to highland plantations in Sri Lanka.
Around 1,200 people died in the Sumatra flood, and more than 240,000 were displaced, according to the BNPB.
Environmentalists and experts have pointed to the role forest loss played in the flooding and landslides that washed torrents of mud into villages.
The government this week stripped more than two dozen permits from forestry, mining and hydroelectric companies in Sumatra.
This latest landslide also comes after torrential rains battered Indonesia’s Siau island this month, causing a flash flood that killed at least 16 people.
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