JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Rescue workers are looking for 26 missing after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia’s West Java province last weekend, officials said Tuesday.
At least 13 people were killed and 29 others injured in the landslides triggered by torrential rain in Cihanjuang, a village in the Sumedang district of West Java, on Sunday. Some of the victims were rescuers from the first landslide.
The search and rescue operation was hampered by rainy weather around the disaster site, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Raditya Jati said.
Seasonal rains and high water have caused dozens of landslides and large-scale floods in recent days in much of Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains near rivers.