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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
JAKARTA, June 1 (Xinhua) — The death toll from Friday’s quarry landslides in Indonesia’s West Java province rose to 19 on Sunday, but fresh landslides have suspended the search for six missing people, officials said.
West Java Provincial Disaster Management Agency spokesman Hadi Rahmat Harjasasmita said two more bodies were found by rescuers on Sunday at the Gunung Kuda mine in Bobos village, Cirebon regency.
He said that in order to ensure the uninterrupted operation of search services and the provision of emergency assistance, a state of emergency was introduced on May 30, which will end on June 6.
The search and rescue operation has been suspended due to fresh landslides at the quarry, said Mamang Fatmono, acting head of the provincial search and rescue department’s operations unit.
“We are facing a difficult task today. At 11:10 a.m., new landslides occurred, so the search operation was suspended. The search operation will resume tomorrow,” he told Xinhua. -0-