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Landslides, Floods Kill 21 in Indonesia
July 25, 2010

Storm damage near Yogyakarta. Storms and landslides throughout Indonesia have claimed 21 lives. (Antara Photo) Storm damage near Yogyakarta. Storms and landslides throughout Indonesia have claimed 21 lives. (Antara Photo)
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Jakarta. Rain-triggered landslides and floods swept through villages in Indonesia’s provinces of Maluku and South Kalimantan, killing at least 21 people, officials said on Sunday.

The worst happened in Buru Island in the eastern province of Maluku, where a landslide hit scores of houses, killing 18 villagers, said Priyadi Kardono, the spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency.

Seven other villagers were injured in the Friday landslide in the southern part of Buru, an island that once served as a prison camp for communists in the 1970s.

The bodies of the dead have already been evacuated, Kardono said.

Meanwhile, in South Kalimantan, a flood killed three people and left one missing, said Surat Wiyono of the local Search and Rescue Agency.

More than 3,000 families were affected by the flood that began on Saturday.

Dozens of people are killed every year in Indonesia, a vast tropical archipelagic nation with more than 17,000 islands that are prone to landslides and floods during the annual monsoon rains.


Associated Press