Landslide on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, 18 dead, 2 missing – Dainik Savera Times

Indonesia : Search and rescue teams have pulled out bodies of 18 people from the debris after a landslide on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, while the search for two missing people is still going on. Officials gave this information on Monday. Maxianus Bikabel, head of Makassar’s search and rescue team, said rescue workers pulled out about 14 bodies from the debris in Makale village on Sunday afternoon, while four bodies were pulled out from the debris in South Makale.

“We are searching for two more people, but fog and light rain have made the search difficult,” Suleman Malia, head of Tara Toraja district’s disaster management agency, said on Monday. The officers engaged in the campaign are also nervous. Local police chief Gunardi Mundu said mudslides from the mountains fell on four houses in the Tana Toraja district of South Sulawesi island due to torrential rains on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

He told that a family function was taking place in a house when the landslide occurred. Mundu said dozens of soldiers, police and volunteers were conducting search operations in the remote mountain villages of Makale and South Makale. Rescue workers managed to rescue two injured people, including an 8-year-old girl, early Sunday and admitted them to a nearby hospital, he said.