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Indonesia landslide 'kills four' in West Java village

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At least four people have been killed and dozens are missing after a huge landslide buried a village in West Java, Indonesia, officials say.

Rescue teams have been sent to look for survivors at a tea plantation near Bandung, south of the capital, Jakarta.

Hundreds of people have been left homeless by the landslide, which is reported to have hit a workers' housing area in the morning.

Landslides triggered by monsoon rain or floods are common in Indonesia.

Bandung has been seeing particularly heavy rains and floods at this time of year, with scores of people fleeing from their homes to safety, says the BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta.

Communication problems

"It had been raining very heavily since yesterday [Monday] and that probably caused the landslide," Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono told the AFP news agency.

"We believe the landslide area could be the size of two football fields. The tea-processing plant and 50 houses were also buried."


The plantation owns barracks to provide housing for its hundreds of workers.

Mr Kardono said roads to the area had been cut: "We're facing problems trying to reach them."

Rescue efforts have already been hampered by poor communication due to the collapse of a mobile phone tower which was brought down by the landslide.

Landslides - especially during the rainy season - are frequent in Indonesia, where years of deforestation can often leave hillsides vulnerable to collapse, our correspondent adds.

According to environmentalists, tropical downpours can quickly soak hills stripped of vegetation which had held the soil in place

 

Communication problems

"It had been raining very heavily since yesterday [Monday] and that probably caused the landslide," Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono told the AFP news agency.

"We believe the landslide area could be the size of two football fields. The tea-processing plant and 50 houses were also buried."


The plantation owns barracks to provide housing for its hundreds of workers.

Mr Kardono said roads to the area had been cut: "We're facing problems trying to reach them."

Rescue efforts have already been hampered by poor communication due to the collapse of a mobile phone tower which was brought down by the landslide.

Landslides - especially during the rainy season - are frequent in Indonesia, where years of deforestation can often leave hillsides vulnerable to collapse, our correspondent adds.

According to environmentalists, tropical downpours can quickly soak hills stripped of vegetation which had held the soil in place

 

Last Updated ( 16 January 2010 )  

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