Police, soldiers and volunteers had used their bare hands and makeshift
tools to search for survivors and clear the area on Saturday after the
disaster struck on Friday night.
Hundreds have been evacuated from around Jemblung village in the Banjarnegara district of central Java, about 450 km (280 miles) from the capital, Jakarta, where media pictures showed a flood of mud and water cascading down a wooded mountainside.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said 24 people had been killed, 84 were missing and 577 people from the surrounding areas had been taken to temporary shelters.
There were 2,000 rescuers involved in the operation on Sunday, he said.
"We hope we can operate all of the heavy equipment today," Nugroho told Reuters. "We could not operate the equipment soon after the landslide. We had to be very careful about the stability of the ground."
Hundreds have been evacuated from around Jemblung village in the Banjarnegara district of central Java, about 450 km (280 miles) from the capital, Jakarta, where media pictures showed a flood of mud and water cascading down a wooded mountainside.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said 24 people had been killed, 84 were missing and 577 people from the surrounding areas had been taken to temporary shelters.
There were 2,000 rescuers involved in the operation on Sunday, he said.
"We hope we can operate all of the heavy equipment today," Nugroho told Reuters. "We could not operate the equipment soon after the landslide. We had to be very careful about the stability of the ground."
Source: News in Hindi and Newspaper
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