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Search continues for victims of Trenggalek landslide
Triadi Atmono, head of the Trenggalek Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), said the landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall that persisted from Sunday into Monday. “The landslide buried three houses and damaged seven others, impacting 10 families and displacing 30 individuals,” he said.
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Rescue teams, including the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the Army, police and volunteers, use high-pressure water to search for victims of a landslide triggered by heavy rain that claimed 19 lives, in Kasimpar Village, Central Java, on Jan. 22, 2025. (Antara Foto/Harviyan Perdana Putra)
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escuers are racing against time to locate six people believed to be trapped beneath debris after a landslide struck Depok village in Trenggalek regency, East Java, on Monday afternoon.
The six individuals, named as Yatini, Nitin, Tulus, Mesinem, Yatemi and Torik, are all related and are believed to have been inside their homes when the landslide struck.
Nanang Pujo, coordinator of the Trenggalek Search and Rescue Agency, said 135 personnel had been deployed to Depok village to search for the victims.
“We’ve prepared three pieces of heavy equipment to assist in the rescue efforts, but we haven’t been able to transport them to the landslide site because the access road is blocked by mud, fallen trees and downed power lines. We are working to clear the route,” he said on Tuesday.
Nanang added that rescue efforts were further hampered by unstable terrain and poor weather conditions, which posed serious safety risks to the team. Rescuers were forced to trek through difficult terrain to reach the site and had to halt operations whenever rain fell, due to the heightened risk of another landslide.
Triadi Atmono, head of the Trenggalek Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), said the landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall that persisted from Sunday into Monday.
“The landslide buried three houses and damaged seven others, impacting 10 families and displacing 30 individuals,” he said.
