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- A hunt and rescue squad discovered 18 group killed by landslides connected Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, pinch 2 still missing.
- Rescuers recovered astir 14 bodies successful Makale colony and 4 successful South Makale connected Sunday, according to nan main of Makassar Search and Rescue.
- Two group are still missing, pinch fog and rainfall hindering nan search, officials say.
A hunt and rescue squad recovered 18 group killed by landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi land and are still looking for 2 missing, officials said Monday.
Rescuers recovered astir 14 bodies successful Makale colony connected Sunday day and 4 successful South Makale, said Mexianus Bekabel, nan main of Makassar Search and Rescue.
"We are still looking for 2 much victims, but fog and drizzle made nan hunt difficult and officers successful nan section were overwhelmed," Sulaiman Malia, main of nan Tana Toraja territory Disaster Management Agency, said connected Monday.
OVER 100 MISSING, AT LEAST 11 DEAD IN PHILIPPINE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE LANDSLIDE
Loosened by torrential rain, mud poured from surrounding hills onto 4 houses conscionable earlier midnight Saturday successful nan Tana Toraja territory of South Sulawesi province, said section constabulary main Gunardi Mundu. He said a family gathering was being held successful 1 of nan houses erstwhile nan landslide hit.
Rescuers hunt for survivors astatine a colony deed by a landslide successful Tana Toraja territory of South Sulawesi province, Indonesia connected April 14, 2024. A hunt and rescue squad recovered aggregate group killed by landslides connected Indonesia’s Sulawesi land and are still looking for a fewer missing, officials said connected Monday. (National Search and Rescue Agency via AP)
Dozens of soldiers, constabulary and volunteers joined nan hunt successful nan distant hillside villages of Makale and South Makale, Mundu said. Rescuers early Sunday managed to propulsion retired 2 injured people, including an 8-year-old girl, and rushed them to a adjacent hospital.
Downed communications lines, bad upwind and unstable ungraded were hampering nan rescue efforts, Muhari said.
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Tana Toraja has galore celebrated tourer attractions, including accepted houses and woody statues of bodies buried successful caves, known arsenic tau-tau.
Seasonal downpours origin predominant landslides and floods successful Indonesia, a concatenation of 17,000 islands wherever millions of group unrecorded successful mountainous areas aliases fertile flood plains.
