JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Rescuers are looking for 26 people who are 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 died and 29 were injured in landslides that were caused 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 spokeswoman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Raditya Jati.
Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains near rivers.