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Reuters Indonesia Landslide, Floods Kill Three, 13 Missing

Date: 17-Nov-08
Country: INDONESIA

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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