At least seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said on Thursday, adding to the death toll from landslides in the region this week.
Rescuers remove the body of a victim from the wreckage of a vehicle after it was hit by a landslide that killed multiple people in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra , Indonesia , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. Rescuers remove the body of a victim from the wreckage of a vehicle after it was hit by a landslide that killed multiple people in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra , Indonesia , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024.
Rescuers recovered the bodies of the victims, including a driver and passengers, from a tourist bus that was covered by trees, mud, and rocks in the landslide on the road from Medan city to Berastagi town in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. The route is the main access from the capital Medan to other districts in the region.More than 10 people were also injured and have been evacuated to the hospital in Medan city.
Muji Ediyanto, traffic director of the North Sumatra Regional Police, said in a video messager distributed by Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency on Thursday said that some vehicles remain trapped between the landslide locations along that road. “It will take at least two days to evacuate them from the landslide. Several vehicles are still trapped by piles landslides. There are also fallen trees at several points and landslides and the vehicles have not been able to get out of the locations,” Ediyanto said.
Seasonal rains from around October through to March frequently cause flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
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