A landslide has killed no less than 19 individuals and left two others lacking in central Indonesia's South Kelevi province following heavy rains, emergency companies stated Sunday.
The our bodies of the victims and two survivors had been present in villages in Tana Toraja district that had been hit by the landslide on Saturday, Suleiman Malia, a catastrophe administration official within the area, instructed AFP.
“We depend two lifeless (…) and in the meanwhile we’re nonetheless searching for extra victims,” he stated, clarifying that two persons are lacking, who had been apparently buried when the landslide hit.
Tana Toraja has seen “heavy rains for the previous week, virtually continuous,” it stated. Rainfall eroded the soil in residential areas on the mountainside, inflicting landslides that buried homes with their residents inside, he defined.
Indonesia is usually hit by landslides in the course of the wet season, a phenomenon exacerbated in locations by deforestation.
In early March, flash floods and landslides killed no less than 30 individuals in Sumatra. Dozens extra are nonetheless lacking on the island.
In December, landslides and floods hit dozens of properties and destroyed a lodge close to Lake Toba, additionally in Sumatra, killing no less than two individuals.
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