The landslide seriously damaged one house and blocked roads connecting four villages at Bodag, Sugito, Bodag village chief, said here Saturday.
Heavy rains falling at the village located in the slope of Mount Wilis since Friday afternoon, triggered the landslide, he said.
Local volunteers were trying to clear out the buried roads from mud an rocks, he said.
Two weeks ago, 12 people had been killed in floods and landslides that occurred in Pidie, Aceh, Indonesia`s northern most country.
"Twelve people have been killed and four others were reported missing," head of data and information and public relations of the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said to ANTARA when contacted from Jakarta to confirm the incident, last March 12.
The floods and landslides happened following incessant rains since Thursday (March 10) that forced more than 7,000 people in the district to seek refuge in safer places.
District head Mirza Ismail said on Saturday he was still recording the evacuees.
He said 47 houses have been destroyed and hundred others have been damaged. Some bridges, two schools and two mosques have also been damaged.(*)
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