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Search efforts continue on landslide-stricken Indonesian island |
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January 24, 2001
JAKARTA-- (AP) - Rescuers dug away at tons of mud and rubble in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province Tuesday trying to find survivors of five devastating landslides that have killed at least 34 people, officials said. At least 19 people are missing, said Soleman M. Kakoe, the head of the province's search and rescue agency. Villagers joined forces with police and soldiers working only with hoes and spades in villages on Sangir Besar island, 2,160 kilometers (1,350 miles) northeast of Jakarta. The slides hit the island late Saturday after more than four days of heavy seasonal rain. Kakoe said emergency workers had not given up hope of finding people alive. On Monday, relief workers rescued a man who had been half-buried by mud for more than two days in Likuang village, local police Col. Ruslan Aspan said. Rescue efforts in the area have been hampered by destroyed bridges and blocked roads and much-needed heavy equipment had not reached the worst hit areas, Aspan said. Flooding and landslides coinciding with monsoon rains killed more than 200 people in Indonesia at the end of last year. Government officials and environmentalists say deforestation by timber-cutting logging concerns and villagers needing firewood has contributed to the disasters. |