Indonesia landslide buries more than 100 people

Hundreds of Indonesian rescue workers are urgently digging through the rubble with bare hands, hoes and shovels, searching for 107 people missing in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Java.

Houses in Kudus district, Central Java province, destroyed in a landslide in January 2014. Photo: AFP.

Mud that rolled down from the hills late yesterday swept away about 105 houses in Jemblung village, Banjarnegara district, Central Java province, AP quoted Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA), as saying.

Rescuers found at least three bodies in the mud and took 38 injured people to hospital, including four seriously injured, Nugroho said. 370 residents were evacuated to temporary shelters.

Hundreds of rescue workers, including police, soldiers and residents, are digging through the rubble with their bare hands, picks and shovels, searching for the 107 people still missing. Local authorities later mobilized tractors and bulldozers to assist.

Landslides and flash floods are common during the rainy season in Indonesia. Indonesia consists of more than 17,000 islands with millions of people living in mountainous areas or near fertile plains.

According to vnexpress