Dozens still missing as death toll in Indonesian landslide rises to 30

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Rescuers have recovered more bodies buried under tonnes of mud from a landslide which crashed on to a hilly village on Indonesia’s remote Natuna islands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It brings the death toll to 30&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The landslide&comma; triggered by torrential downpours&comma; plunged down surrounding hills on Monday&comma; burying 30 houses in Genting village on a tiny remote island in the Natuna archipelago at the edge of the South China Sea&comma; the National Search and Rescue Agency said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities have deployed more than 700 rescuers from the search and rescue agency&comma; police and military to search for 24 people&comma; who are still missing after apparently being trapped in houses buried under the 13-feet-deep landslide&comma; said Abdul Rahman&comma; who heads Natuna’s search and rescue agency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Improved weather allowed us to recover more bodies&comma;” Mr Rahman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eight people were pulled out alive&comma; though they were injured&comma; including three critically&comma; National Disaster Management Agency chief Suharyanto said on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They were taken late on Monday to a hospital in Pontianak city on Borneo island&comma; about 186 miles from Genting&comma; but one person died at sea on the way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The search and rescue operation has been hampered by heavy rains around the disaster site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Weather has forced the search effort to be halted several times&comma; while downed communications lines and electricity are also impeding the operation&comma; said Suharyanto&comma; who&comma; like many Indonesians&comma; uses a single name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are doing our best to find the missing victims&comma;” Suharyanto said&comma; with sniffer dogs mobilised in the search&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two helicopters and several vessels carrying rescuers&comma; medical teams and relief supplies&comma; including tents&comma; blankets and food arrived on the island from Jakarta and nearby islands on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The landslide displaced about 1&comma;300 people&comma; who were taken to four temporary shelters&comma; Suharyanto said&period; Authorities fear the death toll could rise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused dozens of landslides and widespread flooding across much of Indonesia&comma; a chain of 17&comma;000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains close to rivers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In November 2022&comma; 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