Rescuers on a remote Indonesia island searched for signs of life on Tuesday after a landslide that killed 15 people, awaiting equipment and reinforcements to boost efforts to find 42 people still missing, the disaster agency said.
followed six days of torrential rain and buried houses on a village on the island of Searasan in the Natuna region, about 80 km off the island of Borneo.
Disaster agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said the landslide was estimated to have been 100-200 metres long and there were just 42 people involved in a rescue mission complicated by the remote location. Heavy equipment such as excavators had yet to arrive, he said, with those helping in the operation required to travel by boat, vehicles then on foot.
"The number of fatalities might change at anytime. Of 15 fatalities, 10 bodies had been retrieved," Abdul said by phone, adding 1,216 residents had been moved to temporary shelters in mosques and community health centres.
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