KARANGANYAR - At least 61 people were killed and 36 others went missing after rain-triggered landslides hit Tawangmangu district at Karanganyar regency of Central Java province on Wednesday, disaster management agency said. An official of the agency at the field Anggit M.S. told that rescuers, comprising soldiers, police and personnel from the national rescue agency, were searching those missing under the buried houses.
He said scores of houses and infrastructures were destroyed and buried by the soil at eight spots, when the landslides occurred early morning. "Sixty-one people are dead and thirty-six other are missing," he told on telephone from the district. Torrential rain and lack of forest coverage were blamed for the accidents, said the official. "Two consecutive days of heavy rain was the cause of the landslides," he said.
This will be a good day for the tivi stations as a lot of people will look for the disaster coverage (and the commercials in between). They still think back of the wonderful tsunami days when they made a lot of money with the sensation television.
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KARANGANYAR - At least 61 people were killed and 36 others went missing after rain-triggered landslides hit Tawangmangu district at Karanganyar regency of Central Java province on Wednesday, disaster management agency said. An official of the agency at the field Anggit M.S. told that rescuers, comprising soldiers, police and personnel from the national rescue agency, were searching those missing under the buried houses.
