Heavy rains successful Pekalongan origin a devastating landslide, blocking a main roadworthy and burying houses.
Published On 22 Jan 2025
Rescuers successful Indonesia proceed to hunt for survivors aft a landslide successful the country’s Central Java state killed astatine slightest 19 people.
Torrential rainfall successful Pekalongan caused a landslide connected Tuesday connected a main roadworthy connecting the metropolis with a tourer area, the Dieng plateau.
Footage connected section media showed the affected roadworthy and houses buried and atom fields covered by mud, rubble and rocks.
Rescuers were forced to locomotion astir 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) to get to the tract due to the fact that the roadworthy was inaccessible. An excavator had been deployed to wide the mudslide portion dense rainfall and fog hindered rescue efforts.
“The associated hunt and rescue squad managed to find and evacuate 2 bodies … connected Wednesday morning. The fig of fatalities recorded arsenic of this day is 19 people,” said Abdul Muhari, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
“The 2 bodies recovered this greeting were portion of the database of radical reported missing successful the tragic event.”
Search and rescue bureau Basarnas said connected Wednesday that 13 radical were besides injured.
Heavy machinery was deployed to wide roadworthy entree for hunt teams and astir 200 rescue unit person been sent to assistance the rescue effort, section authoritative Mohammad Yulian Akbar said.
“The absorption is to hunt for the victims,” helium said, adding that the section authorities had declared an exigency successful the territory for 2 weeks.
Images shared by the catastrophe bureau showed rescuers carrying victims successful assemblage bags with bamboo stretchers nether heavy fog from the site.
The bureau warned residents that rainfall was expected successful the adjacent fewer days which could origin much landslides and flash floods.
Indonesia is prone to landslides during the rainy season, typically betwixt November and April, but immoderate disasters caused by adverse upwind person taken spot extracurricular that play successful caller years.
In December, 10 radical were killed in flash floods that deed hilly villages connected the country’s main land of Java.