Indonesia landslide
By sumaryanto bronto
30 Dec 2007
Indonesia Landslides
Rescuers recovered dozens of bodies from a village devastated by landslides on Indonesia's Java island as authorities struggled to get heavy lifting equipment to the affected areas. Police and soldiers working mostly with their bare hands or simple agricultural tools Officials said at least 87 people were killed or feared dead. Most of the victims were caught in a single landslide in the Karanganyar district in central Java. But hillsides collapsed onto houses and claimed victims in at least seven other places in the mountainous region, which had been lashed by hours of torrential rain.
The landslides, which occurred in a mountainous region on Java island following days of seasonal downpours, sent hillsides collapsing onto homes The heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks in the towns of Solo and Sragen Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous nation.
The latest disasters occurred on the third anniversary of a massive earthquake off Sumatra island that triggered a tsunami, which killed more than 230,000 people and left a half-million homeless in a dozen countries.
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