Indonesia landslide, floods kill three, 13 missing
JAKARTA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - At least
three people were killed and 13 are missing after torrential rains triggered
floods and a landslide in several areas of Indonesia's West Java province,
a health ministry official said on Friday.
Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said two bodies had been recovered and 13 were missing and believed to buried under a landslide which swept over several houses in West Java's Cianjur regency late on Thursday.
Separately, one person died in floods in Bandung regency that displaced more than a 1,000 people. Floods and landslides are common during the rainy season in Indonesia.
(Reporting by Telly Nathalia; Editing by Sugita Katyal and Paul Tait)
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