Five dead, seven missing in floods and landslides in Indonesia

JAKARTA: Floods and landslides on Indonesia’s central Java island killed at least five people earlier this week, the national disaster agency said on Friday, as rescue workers raced to find seven others missing.

Heavy rains triggered floods and landslides in the Sukabumi district of West Java province on Tuesday, destroying at least 10 bridges and damaging hundreds of homes. “As of 09:00 (0200 GMT) on Friday, it was reported that the death toll has risen to a total of five,” National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman Abdul Mehri said in a statement on Friday. ‘ .