JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rain-triggered landslides in two regions in Indonesia ’s Central Java province last week have led to the deaths of at least 18 people, authorities said Monday, with search operations ongoing.
A landslide in the city of Cilacap last week buried a dozen houses in Cibeunying village, the disaster mitigation agency said. Search and rescue efforts were challenging as people were buried 10 to 25 feet deep, it said.
A destroyed house is seen as rescuers search for survivors in Cibeunying on Friday.
Bakhtiar Rahman / AFP via Getty Images
The Cilacap landslide has killed at least 16 people, with seven missing, said M Abdullah, chief of the search and rescue agency’s local division.
Excavators were deployed to dig through dirt in Cilacap, footage from news channel KompasT

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