31 January,2009 03:08 PM IST | | AP
A government rescue official says at least six people have been killed in a landslide in central Indonesia. Hours of torrential rain on the main island of Java sent mud and rocks tumbling onto four houses, said National Search and Rescue agency official Basuki on Saturday.
Six bodies and a surviving boy with a broken leg were pulled from the rubble, said Basuki, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.
The slide occurred late Friday in Karangangyar district, about 500 km east of the capital, Jakarta. Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas, is prone to floods during the annual monsoon rains. Dozens dies each year.
