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Rescuers race to find 35 missing people in Sulawesi landslide
Rescuers are racing to find 35 people who are still missing two days after a landslide at the weekend buried an illegal gold mine in Gorontalo on Sulawesi Island and killed at least 23 miners and residents living nearby.
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Rescue team personnel use a stretcher on July 8, 2024, to transport a landslide survivor across a suspended bridge in Tulabolo village, Bone Bolango regency, Gorontalo. An official said on the same day that least 11 people had been killed and 19 were missing after heavy rain caused a landslide near an illegal gold mine in the province on Sulawesi Island. (AFP/Didot)
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escuers are racing to find 35 people who are still missing two days after a landslide over the weekend buried an illegal gold mine in Gorontalo on Sulawesi Island and killed at least 23 miners and residents living nearby.
Anomalous torrential rain that happened at the height of the dry season triggered the disaster on Sunday morning in Tulabolo village in Bone Bolango regency, with the landslide engulfing miners and residents living nearby.
Rescue efforts had restarted on Tuesday after being temporarily halted on Monday evening because of heavy rain, Gorontalo Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas Gorontalo) official Salama said, as reported by Reuters. Nearly 400 people from Basarnas, the police and the military were involved in the rescue operation, which was aided by a helicopter.
Data from the Basarnas national office received by The Jakarta Post showed that 66 people had been found alive by Tuesday, though the operation was being hampered by thick mud and some rescuers had to walk more than 20 kilometers to reach the site of the disaster.
Earlier on Monday, the agency said at least 12 people had died and 18 were missing, a toll that was updated later in the day to 10 dead and 40 missing.
Read also: Death toll from Gorontalo landslide rises to 23
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said the landslide also damaged several houses and one bridge nearby the illegal mine while heavy rain over the weekend triggered flooding in several neighborhoods in five other districts in Bone Bolango on Sunday, affecting almost 290 families.
