The death toll has risen to 12 in two separate landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Indonesia, including five geothermal workers, and buried more than a dozen others, officials said Sunday. Moreover, the worst landslides happened in Tanjung Sani of Agam district in West Sumatra province, where 20 houses were buried when mud and rocks fell from surrounding hills at dawn on Sunday, killing seven villagers, said disaster official Ade Edward.
In fact in the neighboring province of Jambi, days of heavy rains triggered a landslide in a drilling field owned by PT.
To say more, Seasonal downpours causes frequent landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, resulting as a chain of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
