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Landslides, floods kill 114 in Indonesia
Landslides and floods on Indonesia’s eastern Sulawesi island have killed 114 people and the toll could rise further, officials said yesterday.
A search-and-rescue operation was underway after two days of heavy rain in several parts of South Sulawesi province. Sinjai regency was the worst-hit area after flooding early on Tuesday, rescuers and police said.
Many people were feared buried under mud in areas rescuers could only reach by foot, said Saktianto, a search-and-rescue official in Makassar, South Sulawesi’s capital about 1,400 km (870 miles) east of Jakarta. Torrential rains and landslides are regular features of tropical Indonesia. Rampant deforestation often adds to the ease with which hillsides are saturated and collapse, environmentalists say.
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