Dozens missing and feared dead in Indonesia landslide, police say.

[Roon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[Peter Frank]

1. Dozens Feared Dead in Indonesia Landslide...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Landslides triggered by heavy rains swept down on a village on Indonesia's Java island Wednesday, burying homes beneath tons of mud and leaving dozens of people missing and feared dead, officials said.

Most residents of Cijeruk, a village of about 200 people, were at home sleeping or performing early morning Muslim prayers when the landslide tumbled down from a nearby mountain, local government official Supriyanto told The Associated Press.

Budi Warityo, a police officer at the village in central Java, told The AP that so far only 12 people had been rescued and five bodies had been recovered.

"The rest of the villagers are feared to be buried under the mud," he said by telephone from the scene, about 220 miles east of Jakarta.<snip>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_landslide

[uppityperson]

2. Nearing 200 dead

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/indonesia.landslide.ap/index.html
CIJERUK, Indonesia (AP) -- A landslide buried a village beneath tons of mud and rock Wednesday, as the number of people dead or missing following days of pounding rain in central Indonesia climbed to more than 190, officials said.

One man described watching helplessly as dozens of his neighbors were buried alive in Cijeruk, some of them screaming "Allah Akbar" or "God is Great" as they disappeared beneath the thick clay-like mud.

And though residents and police continued to dig for survivors with their bare hands, officials held out little hope for the more than 100 people still missing in the remote farming community....

Much more at link, eye witness descriptions too. Tragic.