Jakarta, May 20 -- As many as six residents have been buried underneath the rubble of their houses, and several people were wounded after landslides struck Indonesia's East Java province, an official said on Tuesday.
Days of high-intensity rainfall prompted a hill to slide and hit eleven houses in Depok village of Trenggalek Regency at about 16:00 on Monday, said Yohan Tarlufti, a senior official of the Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency in the regency.
"Three of the eleven impacted houses are buried by soil. Six people are being buried underneath the rubble of the three houses," he told Xinhua.
The official said that the evacuation of the victims was hampered by access to the scene as landslides were blocking the road heading...