Death toll in deadly Indonesia flooding, landslides rises to 21

Waters from flooded rivers tore done 9 villages successful Indonesia’s Central Java province, and landslides tumbled onto mountainside hamlets aft torrential rains.

Videos and photos released by National Search and Rescue Agency showed workers digging desperately successful villages wherever roads and green-terraced ricefields were transformed into murky brownish mud and villages were covered by heavy mud, rocks and uprooted trees.

National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said flooding triggered a landslide connected Monday that buried 2 houses and a cafe successful the Petungkriyono edifice area.

The disasters destroyed 25 houses, a dam and 3 main bridges connecting villages successful Pekalongan city. At slightest 21 radical were killed, 13 injured and astir 300 were forced to fly to impermanent authorities shelters.

Scores of rescue unit recovered 3 mud-caked bodies, including 1 of a five-month-old baby, arsenic they searched a Petungkriyono country wherever tonnes of mud and rocks buried 2 houses and a cafe.

Another assemblage was pulled retired from nether a breached span adjacent a stream successful Kasimpar village. Rescuers are inactive searching for 5 missing people.

Heavy seasonal rainfall from October to March often causes flooding and landslides successful Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands wherever millions of radical unrecorded successful mountainous areas oregon adjacent fertile floodplains.