Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies after a landslide struck vehicles on a hilly road on the country\u2019s main island of Java, police said Friday.
\nTorrential rains pushed mud, rocks and trees down the mountainside road on Thursday, burying a van with seven people aboard and a pickup truck with three traders and full of vegetables near Watu Lumpang, a resort area in East Java\u2019s Mojokerto district, said local police chief Andi Yudha Pranata.
\nAccording to The Associated Press, Pranata said rescuers pulled out the body of the van\u2019s driver late Thursday and his six family members, including three children, wife and parents, were retrieved on Friday, together with the bodies of the three traders.
\nFootage released by East Java\u2019s Search and Rescue Agency showed the road covered by thick mud, rocks and uprooted trees.
\nSeasonal rains from about October to April frequently cause flooding and landslides in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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