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Mudslide buries Indonesian homes
Associated Press
Published January 4, 2006
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A landslide triggered by heavy rain buried a small village in central Indonesia at dawn Wednesday, leaving dozens missing and feared dead, officials said.
Most of the 200 villagers were either sleeping or performing early Muslim prayers in their homes when tons of mud and rocks crashed into more than 100 houses in Cijeruk village, local government official Supriyanto told the Associated Press.
Budi Warityo, a police officer at the village in central Java, told the AP that so far only 12 people had been rescued and one body had been recovered, but that many other members of the village were missing and believed killed by the avalanche.
"The rest of the villagers are feared to be buried under the mud," he said from the scene, estimating the population of Cijeruk to be more than 200 people.
Cijeruk is about 220 miles east of Jakarta, the capital.
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