At least 14 people died consequently of landslides in Indonesian Sulawesi, the seek for the missing is hampered by bad weather
At least 14 people have been killed in landslides on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the country’s disaster relief agency said on Sunday, with people still missing.
Landslides brought on by heavy rains have hit two villages within the Tana Toraja region of south Sulawesi, killing 14 people and destroying 4 houses, Abdul Muhari, a spokesman for the agency, said in an announcement.
He added that a search and rescue operation was underway for the missing residents, without providing details on the variety of missing residents. Local media report that not less than two persons are missing.
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Mundu said several dozen soldiers, police and volunteers had joined the search within the villages of Makale and South Makale, positioned in distant, hilly terrain. On Sunday, rescuers managed to tug out two injured people, including an 8-year-old girl, and transport them to a close-by hospital.
Images provided by the agency of affected villages show rescuers looking through the rubble for survivors, with homes razed to the bottom and reduced to planks of wood and concrete.
The mountainous region of Tana Toraja, positioned in the middle of the island of Sulawesi, is roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the provincial capital Makassar. Tana Toraja has many popular tourist attractions, including a site of traditional houses and picket statues of bodies buried in caves, often known as tau-tau.
Indonesia’s rainy season began in January, and the weather agency forecast it will peak in the primary quarter, especially on the islands of Java and Sumatra.
Additional reporting by the Associated Press
