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Agence France-Presse

A landslide killed at least eight people and left over 80 missing on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Saturday, a disaster official said.
The landslide triggered by heavy rainfall struck a village in the region of West Bandung at around 2.30am, burying residential areas.
Floods and landslides are common across the vast archipelago during the rainy season, which typically runs from October to March.
“There was a rumbling noise, like thunder,” said Oyoh, a resident of Pasir Langu village who, like many Indonesians, only has one name.
“It had been raining non-stop since the morning, and then it (the landslide) happened. I immediately felt scared.”
The 52-year-old was evacuated to the village’s government office along with dozens of others, mainly women and children.

She said her house survived the landslide, but her niece, her niece’s husband and their two children were missing.
Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the national disaster agency, confirmed that eight people were killed and 82 were unaccounted for.
Television stations broadcast footage of workers and residents digging desperately in Pasir Langu, where roads and green-terraced rice fields were transformed into murky brown mud as the village was covered with thick mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
West Bandung’s mayor Jeje Ritchie Ismail said that the military, police and volunteers were assisting in the search.
However, he warned the terrain was extremely difficult and the ground remained unstable.

The local search and rescue agency said it was conducting manual excavation, spraying the soil with water pumps and using drones to search for victims.
Families living within 100 metres of the landslide zone were evacuated due to fears of further slope failures.
Tropical storms and intense monsoon rains pummelled parts of South and Southeast Asia late last year, triggering deadly landslides and floods from the rainforests of Indonesia’s Sumatra to highland plantations in Sri Lanka.
Around 1,200 people died in the Sumatra flood in November, and more than 240,000 were displaced, according to authorities.
Environmentalists and experts have pointed to the role forest loss played in the flooding and landslides that washed torrents of mud into villages.
The government this week stripped more than two dozen permits from forestry, mining and hydroelectric companies in Sumatra.


The latest landslide also comes after torrential rains battered Indonesia’s Siau island this month, causing a flash flood that killed at least 16 people.
And in November, at least 16 people were killed in Central Java’s Cibeunying village after days of heavy rain triggered a landslide that buried a dozen houses.
Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains.
Additional reporting by Reuters, Associated Press


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