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Ten dead in Indonesia landslide JAKARTA, Feb 1 (AFP) - Ten people have been killed by a landslide that buried their homes in Indonesia's West Java province, a local official said Saturday. The deaths early Friday in Kuningan regency followed another landslide elsewhere in West Java that killed at least 18 people three days earlier. Authorities Saturday recovered the last two of 10 bodies that were buried in the landslide that struck Cantilan village the previous day, said Slamet Hermansyah, of the Kuningan government information bureau. "Four houses were buried," Hermansyah told AFP by telephone. One person survived with serious injuries, he added. Fearing further landslides, about 43 families were being moved to a safer location Saturday, he said. Hermansyah said the landslide followed heavy rain that made the soil unstable. Deforestation is blamed for some of the frequent landslides in Java but Hermansyah said he did not consider it a factor in Cantilan, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kuningan town and some 200 kilometres east of Jakarta. "The forest in the area is fine," he said. Officials said heavy downpours triggered a landslide Tuesday night near the town of Garut, southwest of Kuningan. Deforestation might also have been a factor in the incident which killed at least 18 people and injured 74, one official said. |
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