At the least 15 individuals have been killed, with dozens nonetheless buried underneath thick mud after a landslide hit an unauthorised gold mining operation on the island of Sumatra, officers mentioned.
Villagers had been digging for gold within the distant Solok district on Sumatra – one in every of Indonesia’s western islands – when catastrophe struck.
Mud plunged down the encompassing hills and buried them, Irwan Effendoi, head of the native catastrophe mitigation company workplace, mentioned.
He mentioned not less than 25 individuals had been nonetheless buried.
Three individuals had been pulled out alive with accidents by rescuers.
A number of main landslides have already hit Indonesia this yr, killing dozens, together with two such incidents in Sumatra.
At the least 43 individuals had been killed when flash flooding led to mudslides and a deluge of chilly lava by way of mountainside villages on the island in Might.
Two months earlier, heavy rains triggered flash floods and a landslide in West Sumatra, killing not less than 26 individuals and leaving 11 others lacking.
In the meantime, in April, not less than 14 individuals died and three had been reported lacking after landslides on the central island of Sulawesi.
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