5 Dead in Indonesia Landslide

Five people are dead and 15 missing after a landslide struck low-lying village on the Indonesian island of Java. A spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, says the landslide occurred Thursday in the island's Brebes district in Central Java, as farmers were working in their rice paddies.  The landslide appears to have been triggered by several days of heavy rains that loosened the soil on the mountains surrounding the village. Soldiers and local...

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