The dead victims were identified as Suwandi,25, Suwoko,43, Sugianto,41, Alipiyo Supatin,42, Dirham Nur Abidin,32, Poniman,30, Misdianto,44, Ngasno,21 and Mulyono,30, ANTARA learned here on Sunday.
While, other victims who suffered from injuries are
Raun,53, Ponari,36, Agung,13, Suwono,55, Lukman,11, Slamet Wahyudi 41, Nuriyanto,20 and Slamet Riyanto,21.
In addition, Muji Utomo, one of the Indonesian Red Cross members said, avalanches that fell from the cliff with a height of 80 meters, buried all the nine villagers.
All the dead victims have been evacuated at about 03.30 pm local time, and were laid in state in a mosque prior to their burial.
An eye-witness, Priyanto said that the accident happened at about 11.30 am local time when they were picking up firewood.
When taking the firewood on the edge of the Nambaan River, that its position just below the steep cliffs, a number of stones and soil suddenly fell off a cliff, Priyanto added. (*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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