Indonesian landslide death toll jumps to 20

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Indonesian landslide death toll jumps to 20
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JAKARTA — Rescue workers in western Indonesia used heavy equipment on Tuesday to dig out from weekend flooding and landslides that have killed at least 20 people, the country's national disaster agency said.

JAKARTA — Rescue workers in western Indonesia used heavy equipment on Tuesday to dig out from weekend flooding and landslides that have killed at least 20 people, the country's national disaster agency said.In North Sumatra province, the bodies of five people listed as missing had been pulled from under a mountain of mud and debris, agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said in a statement.

In a village in Deli Serdang district, where four people have been found dead and two more were missing, piles of mud, logs and rocks were scattered around the village where a rescue operation was under way.'The electricity was cut off and there is no cellphone reception, making it difficult for us rescuers to communicate,' Iman Sitorus, a local search-and-rescue agency spokesman, told AFP.Authorities also have deployed heavy equipment to clean up the debris, he said.

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