Sumatra - Saba:
Nine people were killed when a tourist bus fell due to a landslide resulting from heavy rains on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Indonesian officials reported today that bodies were recovered from the bus, which was covered in trees, silt and rocks resulting from the landslide on the road between the city of Medan and the town of Berastagi in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, yesterday evening, Thursday.
This road is the main road from the capital Medan to other areas in the region.
The bus was among the vehicles stranded due to landslides along the road since Wednesday morning.
More than ten people were also injured and were transferred to a hospital in the city of Medan.
Some vehicles and their passengers were still trapped in landslides on the road, Muji Idianto of the North Sumatra regional police said in a video message released by Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency on Thursday.
At least 20 people have been killed in other landslides and flooding in the region this week.
The monsoon rains, which last from October to March, frequently cause flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.
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