The death toll from an Indonesian landslide has risen to at least 24 and more than 80 people are still missing as rescuers use heavy-lifting equipment for the first time to clear roads leading to the site of the disaster that destroyed a village, ABC news reported.
Police, soldiers and volunteers used their bare hands and makeshift tools to search for survivors and clear the area on Saturday after the landslide struck on Friday night.
Hundreds have been evacuated from around Jemblung village in the Banjarnegara district of central Java, about 450 kilometres from the capital, Jakarta, where media pictures showed a flood of mud and water cascading down a wooded mountainside.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said 24 people had been killed, 84 were missing and 577 people from the surrounding areas had been taken to temporary shelters.
There were 2,000 rescuers involved in the operation on Sunday, he said.