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View all search resultsIslands in focus: Landslide buries house in Kupang
Heavy rain that doused Kupang city throughout Monday triggered a landslide that buried a house on Tuesday night
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eavy rain that doused Kupang city throughout Monday triggered a landslide that buried a house on Tuesday night. No fatalities were reported.
The house in Bello subdistrict, Maulafa district, had earlier been vacated by owner Megaria Nenobahan, who was aware of the potential danger amid the torrential rain.
'The owner has moved, since landslides often occur at that spot,' neighborhood chief Vallens Vina told reporters on Wednesday.
Vallens said that besides Megaria's house, located on a slope on the banks of the Kuanfu River, three other houses in the area had also subsided as a result of the land movement, forcing the owners to move out to relatives' houses elsewhere.
The local administration has frequently warned owners of houses on the riverbanks of the possibility of landslides; in 2012, a landslide in the area buried 14 houses.
