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he search for another 15 people will continue Monday but relatives had on Sunday already resigned to having lost them in Tuesday's deadly landslide at a tea plantation in Bandung.

No bodies have been recovered from the debris since 1 p.m., Sunday.

A meeting, which was attended by the relatives of victims, decided that there would be another day of searching, but will halt efforts at midday Monday.

"The search will be carried out up to 12.00 p.m. *Monday*. We also plan to hold a public prayer vigil for the victims," Bandung regent Obar Sobarna was quoted as saying by Antara.

Bandung Police chief Adj. Snr. Comr. Imran Yunus, director of PT Chakra Perkebunan Dewata Rachmat Badruddin and several community figures attended the meeting at Dewat Elementary School.

As many as 29 victims have been recovered. Twelve of the victims are men, including three babies and 17 women.

Udin Tajudin was coming to grips with the realization that he had lost his daughter and granddaughter.

"Suminar and Risma are still buried, but I have to face the reality that I will never see them *again*," he said.

Dadi, 60, a worker at the devastated tea plantation, said that he was so traumatized by the incident that he would resign from his job should he be assigned work in the same area.

"If the plantation company is to resume operations, I will choose to resign. I am too anxious to work at a place prone to landslides," Dadi, a foreman, said.

He is taking shelter at Tenjolaya, along with wife, three children and other relatives, they will not return to the plantation housing complex.

He said his house would have been swept away by the landslide had it not been shielded by the neighboring house.

"I was born there, at Dewata cameo, but I will abandon my home and job. I hope the company moves to a safer place," he said. He is paid Rp 1.2 million (US$120) a month.

The local health office will send psychiatrists to help counsel survivors.

Psychologists are also expected to extend a helping hand to survivors, some of whom are suffering from distress and lethargy.

As many as 354 people have been displaced by the disaster, scattered across 16 shelters in three districts - Pasir Jambu, Ranca-bali and Ciwidey. Many of them are taking refuge at other residents' homes.

Meanwhile, police chief Imran Yunus has appealed to people living at the company's housing complex in Tenjolaya village to move away because of a new cut discovered in the hillside.

"The cut has been found at a plot of the plantation. It is 8 meters long and about 100 meters from the site of last weeks landslide," Imran said.