JAKARTA, Apr 15 (NNN-ANTARA) – Eighteen people were killed, two injured and two others still missing, after landslides struck South Sulawesi province, in central Indonesia on Saturday night, an official of the local disaster agency said, yesterday.
The landslides, triggered by heavy downpours, happened in Tana Toraja regency’s two sub-districts of Makale and South Makale, on Saturday night, destroying several houses and burying the residents inside, Head of Operational Unit of the provincial Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency, Amson Padolo, said.
The injured people had been rushed into a nearby hospital for medical treatment, while the rescuers were still searching for two missing residents, Padolo said over the phone, adding that, the rescuers needed heavy machinery to clean up the roads buried by the soil.
Heavy rains and the potential for further mudslides had hampered the rescue operation, Padolo said.– NNN-ANTARA
