JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Rescuers are searching for 26 people still missing after two landslides hit a village in West Java province in Indonesia over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday.
At least 13 people were killed and 29 injured in landslides that caused heavy rains on Sunday in Cihanjuang, a village in Sumedang district in West Java. Some of the victims were rescuers from the first landslide.
The search and rescue operation has been hampered by rainy weather around the disaster site, said Raditya Jati, a spokeswoman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency.
Seasonal rains and tides in recent days have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding in much of Indonesia, a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile floodplains near rivers.