Rescuers amongst victims as landslides triggered by heavy rains bury houses in Cihanjuang village.
Two landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed a minimum of 11 individuals and injured 18 others in western Indonesia, in keeping with officers.
The landslides at Cihanjuang village in West Java, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta, passed off at 4pm (09:00 GMT) and seven:30pm (12:30 GMT) on Saturday, a spokesman for the Indonesian Nationwide Board for Catastrophe Administration (BNPB) mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
“The primary landslide was triggered by excessive rainfall and unstable soil circumstances. The next landslide occurred whereas officers had been nonetheless evacuating victims across the first landslide space,” Raditya Jati mentioned.
Rescuers had been among the many victims, he mentioned.
The loss of life toll was preliminary as of Sunday morning, Jati mentioned, including that potential rain and thunderstorms by means of the day could hamper rescue efforts.
Seasonal rains and excessive tide in latest days have prompted dozens of landslides and widespread flooding throughout a lot of Indonesia, a sequence of greater than 17,000 islands the place thousands and thousands of individuals reside in mountainous areas or close to fertile flood plains near rivers.
Authorities struggled to usher in heavy tools to clear the particles in West Java as landslides had blocked roads and a bridge.
President Joko Widodo in October warned Indonesia that heavy rains from the La Nina climate system might set off flooding and landslides, and have an effect on the nation’s agricultural output.
A La Nina sample is characterised by unusually chilly temperatures within the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Indonesia continuously experiences floods and landslides, notably through the wet season from November to March, a state of affairs usually worsened by the slicing down of forests.