Landslide buries five people in central Indonesia

Jakarta - A landslide triggered by heavy downpours buried five people Wednesday in Indonesia's densely populated Central Java province, officials and local media reports said. A torrent of mud slammed into a residential area in Wonoaji village in Wonosobo district, flattening nine homes and damaging five others, the state-run Antara news agency reported.

One body was retrieved and local rescue workers were searching for four other people reported missing and feared dead. Five other residents were injured.

Landslides are frequent in Indonesia, where years of deforestation have left hillsides vulnerable to collapse. Environmentalists blame logging and a failure to plant new trees.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/304769,landslide-buries-five-people-in-central-indonesia.html.