Heavy torrential rain spurs landslide, killing 9 in Indonesia [1]

By: Associated Press, 12/02/2013

KARO, Indonesia (AP) Landslides triggered by torrential rain buried houses near a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia and searchers found nine bodies in the mud and water, a disaster official said Sunday. Four of the dead were children. Several houses were buried when mud gushed down the surrounding hills late Saturday into Gundaling village, about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) east of Mount Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra province.

 

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