Two other villagers survived the incident, but they sustained injuries, he noted in a statement here, Monday.
The debris flows occurred abruptly when several villagers were clearing landslides covering a section of the village's road at around 4 p.m. local time.
As a result, five working residents, who happened to be under a hillside, could not avoid the falling landslide materials. As a result, they were buried, he remarked.
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One was killed on the spot, while two others died while being admitted to a local hospital. They are identified as Mulyono (37), Darmani (65), and Kerno (65).
The deceased are all residents of Bantengan Hamlet of Nyawangan Village, and their mourning families had buried them at the village's graveyard, he added.
This month, incessant downpour had also triggered flooding and landslides in certain other areas of East Java Province. In Trenggalek District, flooding and landslides recently hit certain areas of 12 sub-districts, damaging roads, bridges, and houses.
The Trenggalek Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) reported 94 affected areas, including those in the sub-districts of Trenggalek, Pogalan, Karangan, Gandusari, Kampak, and Panggul.
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The flash floods and landslides that occurred following incessant downpour on October 8 had affected the residents' activities in the disaster zones owing to damaged infrastructure facilities and houses.
The floods that inundated certain areas of the sub-districts of Trenggalek, Pogalan, Karangan, Gandusari, Kampak, and Panggul had also cause major damage to a bridge in Kelutan Village.
Apart from East Java, various parts of Indonesia are also prone to natural disasters. On October 8, 2022, for instance, floods inundated certain parts of six sub-districts in East Aceh Province, thereby compelling 2,436 residents to flee to safer places. Most of the flood victims took refuge in village centers, buildings for religious rituals (meunasah), mosques, and traditional Islamic schools (dayah), according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
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