JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Rescuers are searching for 26 people still missing after two landslides hit a town in the West Java province this past weekend, officials said on Tuesday.
At least 13 people were killed and 29 others injured in landslides caused by heavy rains in Cihanjuang, a village in the West Java Sumedang district on Sunday. Some of the victims were rescuers from the first landslide.
The search and rescue operation was hampered by rainy weather around the disaster area, said Raditya Jati, spokesperson for the national disaster relief agency.
Seasonal rains and floods have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding over much of Indonesia over the past few days, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains near rivers.