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Indonesia: Landslide: 2002/12/11 Country Information on DRR

Period 2002/12/11
Country or District Indonesia
Event Type Landslide
Outline A mudslide triggered by days of heavy rain swept through a hotspring resort full of vacationers in Indonesia's East Java province Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring four.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others
OCHA Consolidated Situation Report No. 106 2002/12/13
Dead: 26 people
(7 men and 8 women have already been identified, while the other 11 remain unknown.)

Missing: some 100 people

Hundreds of victims were treated in public hospitals and clinics.

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Report/Articles

OCHA Consolidated Situation Report No. 106 2002/12/13
26 people died, including 5 children under 8 years old.

Sky News 2002/12/13
54 FEARED DEAD

The Star online 2002/12/12
Rescuers searching for victims of Java landslide

Asahi.com2002/12/12(Japanese page)
Landslide killed 28 people, missing 100 in eastern Jawa.

Yahoo asia News 2002/12/12
The death toll from a mudslide at a hot springs resort in Indonesia's East Java has reached 31, at least eight of them children, and others may be trapped in debris and are feared dead.

ABC NEWS 2002/12/11
Mudslide Kills at Least 22 in Indonesia