At slightest 46 feared passed in Java landslide AsiaPacific

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers brought in complicated digging apparatus Wednesday to transparent a murky landslide that killed at slightest seventeen people and left twenty-nine others buriedIndonesias main island of Java, an central said.

Days of complicated sleet stirred the landslide Tuesday afternoon at a alpine tea camp circuitously the encampment of Tenjoljaya in Ciwidey district of West Java province, destroying scores of homes.

Scores of soldiers and military officers and dual excavators bolstered poke efforts Wednesday and seventeen bodies had been recovered from a immeasurable raise of clay by the afternoon, National Disaster Management Agency orator Priyadi Kardono said.

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The poke was deferred Wednesday afternoon due to complicated rain, that done a little fright there would be some-more landslides.

At slightest twenty-nine others are believed to have been buried by the mud. Kardono said: "It seems there is no probability of any one between those 46 surviving."

Officials had progressing pronounced 72 had probably died but after revised the figure down, nonetheless the loyal fee could still be higher.

Another fifteen people had been injured, Kardono said, dual of whom had been certified to hospital.

The circuitous towering roads done boggy by the days of complicated sleet were hampering efforts to get apparatus and rescuers to the site, that is about 90 miles southeast of Indonesias capital, Jakarta, Kardono said.

He combined that some-more landslides were possible.

Hundreds evacuatedSome 600 villagers from the segment have been evacuated to proxy shelters in safer locations, Kardono said. Most of these were from unblushing circuitously villages that were in landslide-prone areas.

Many of the victims were camp laborers who lived in hutsthe plantation. Most of the recovered bodies of men, women and a kid were dug up from the residential area.

Villagers unearthed the initial victims late Tuesday utilizing plantation collection and unclothed hands.

Vice President Boediono, who similar to most Indonesians goes by usually one name, visited the site Wednesday, accompanied by multiform supervision ministers.

Landslides are a usual jeopardy in Indonesia during the stream latter weeks of the monsoon season.