Indonesia, Jan. 28 -- Indonesian rescue teams on Wednesday deployed additional heavy machinery to speed up the search for dozens of people still missing after a landslide struck a village in West Java's Bandung Barat District.

The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team has intensified operations to locate 32 victims believed to be buried by the landslide in Pasirlangu Hamlet, Cisarua Sub-district, West Bandung, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas).

Basarnas operations director Bramantyo said search efforts on Wednesday were concentrated in three main sectors - A1, A2 and B3 - along with an additional sector, A3, located on higher ground near the foothills of Mount Burangrang.

"We divided the teams after the morning...