Jakarta, Indonesia — Indonesian rescuers were searching Friday for people who went missing in landslides triggered by torrential rains on Indonesia's Java island. Authorities reported three confirmed deaths with 20 others missing.

Several days of heavy rainfall in the region caused the landslides that hit dozens of houses in three villages in Indonesia’s Central Java province on Thursday evening.

Indonesian authorities said they plan to evacuate residents from 28 houses in the landslide-prone area, according to a statement released by the National Disaster Management Agency on Friday.

“We are going to evacuate those in vulnerable areas so that they leave their homes before any further landslides happen and cause additional casualties,” said Suharyanto, the chief of the agency. He said

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