Published on 12:00 AM, February 23, 2018

Five dead, 15 missing in Indonesia landslide

At least five people have been killed and 15 are still missing after a landslide cascaded down the terraced slopes of a rice field on the Indonesian island of Java yesterday, officials said. The victims, farmers tending their crops in Brebes district, Central Java, were buried under an avalanche of mud and rock around 8:00 am.