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At slightest 17 radical person died aft being swept distant successful flash floods oregon buried nether tons of mud and rocks that deed hilly villages connected the Indonesian‘s main land of Java, officials said connected Tuesday.
Eight much radical are inactive missing.
Torrential rains connected Monday caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing done 9 villages successful Pekalongan regency of Central Java province, arsenic mud, rocks and trees tumbled down connected mountainside hamlets, said Bergas Catursasi, who heads the section Disaster Management Agency.
He said rescue workers by Tuesday had pulled retired astatine slightest 17 bodies successful the worst-hit colony of Petungkriyono, and rescuers are searching for 8 villagers who are reportedly inactive missing. Eleven injured radical managed to flight and were rushed to adjacent hospitals, Catursari said.
Television reports connected Tuesday showed police, soldiers and rescue workers utilized excavators, workplace instrumentality and their bare hands to sift done the rubble looking for the dormant and missing successful devastated villages, portion others carried victims connected bamboo stretchers oregon assemblage bags to ambulances oregon trucks.
“Bad weather, mudslides and rugged terrain hampered the rescue operation,” Catursari said, adding that radical who were sportfishing successful the stream and those who were taking structure from the rainfall were swept distant by flash floods.
A representation of Petungkriono:
National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said flash floods swept distant villagers and vehicles passing done devastated villages and triggered a landslide that buried 2 houses. The catastrophe besides destroyed 2 main bridges connecting villages successful Pekalongan district.
Seasonal rainfall from astir 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.
Last month, a landslide, flash floods and beardown winds deed the Sukabumi territory of West Java province, sidesplitting 12 people. In November a landslide and flash floods triggered by dense downpours deed Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, leaving 20 dormant and 2 missing. A landslide successful the portion besides deed a tourer autobus that killed 9 people.
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