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JAKARTA -- Local media reported that Indonesian Social Affairs Minister Salim Assegaf Al Jufri announced on Friday that eight people were killed in a landslide that hit Cianjur, in West Java, on Thursday evening.
The minister said that search and rescue operations for people who were buried alive in the mud is ongoing. He also said that they received reports about destroyed houses from the landslide that was triggered by a flood caused by torrential rain.
The minister added that some 600 people living around the affected area have sought refuge to safer grounds.
Meanwhile, a separate report said that rescue workers recovered nine dead bodies from the mud as of Friday morning.
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