Rain-triggered landslides in two regions of Indonesia’s Central Java province last week have killed at least 18 people, authorities said on Monday, with search operations still underway.

A landslide in the city of Cilacap buried a dozen houses in Cibeunying village, the disaster mitigation agency said. Search and rescue efforts have been difficult as victims were buried 3 to 8 metres (10 to 25 feet) deep.

The Cilacap landslide has killed at least 16 people, with seven still missing, said M. Abdullah, chief of the local search and rescue division. Excavators were deployed to dig through debris, footage from news channel KompasTV showed on Monday.

Separately, two people died and 27 were missing after a landslide on Saturday in Banjarnegara, also in Central Java, the disaster mitigation ag

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