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