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SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered 10
bodies after a landslide struck vehicles on a hilly road on the
country’s main island of Java, police said Friday.
Torrential rains pushed mud, rocks and trees down the
mountainside road on Thursday, burying a van with seven people
aboard and a pickup truck with three traders and full of
vegetables near Watu Lumpang, a resort area in East Java’s
Mojokerto district, said local police chief Andi Yudha Pranata.
Pranata said rescuers pulled out the body of the van’s driver
late Thursday and his six family members, including three
children, wife and parents, were retrieved on Friday, together
with the bodies of the three traders.
Footage released by East Java’s Search and Rescue Agency showed
the road covered by thick mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
Seasonal rains from about October to April frequently cause
flooding and landslides in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of
17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous
areas or near fertile flood plains.
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