Still, now Indonesia’s rescue recovered 10 dead bodies that were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks. According to the report, two people are missing. Indonesia’s hilly villages are struck by landslides.
Torrential rains started last week. This rain also caused the rivers to overflow their banks and tear through nearly 70 villages in the Sukabumi district of West Java province. Mud, rocks, and trees slipped down the mountainside hamlets, said Lt. Col. Yudi Hariyanto, head of a recovery and rescue command in Sukabumi.
Landslides, flash floods, and strong winds devastated 172 villages, and due to this catastrophic work forced more than 3,000 people to flee the temporary government shelter. According to the Hariyanto
“Authorities have warned nearly 1,000 people to evacuate as more than 400 houses are threatened by extreme weather.”
The local Disaster Management Agency states
“This disaster destroyed 31 bridges,81 roads, and 539 hectares of rice fields. 1,170 houses were flooded up to the roof. The extreme weather also damaged more than 3,300 houses and buildings.”
Hariyanto also added
“Rescue workers on Monday pulled out 10 bodies in the worst-hit villages of Tegalbuleud, Simpenan and Ciemas, including three children, and rescuers are searching for two villagers who are reportedly still missing.”
Social media videos showed how flash floods brought on by intense rains in Sukabumi carried away nearly everything in their path, including cows, cars, motorcycles, and buffaloes.
As troops, police, and rescuers removed mud-caked victims from a ravaged hamlet, footage published by West Java’s Search and Rescue Agency showed roads that had been turned into murky brown rivers and villages covered with thick mud, rocks, and uprooted trees.
In Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous regions or close to rich river plains. The seasonal rains from around October to March continually result in flooding and landslides.
