Magelang, Central Java (ANTARA News) - A landslide hit the Menoreh hill area burying three houses located on the mountain`s slope at Selorejo, Ngargoretno, Salaman subdistrict, on Sunday.

Triggered by incessant heavy rains, the landslide occurred at seven points and forced 37 families to evacuate to safer places, the head of the Nahdlatul Ulama disaster mitigation task force`s Magelang chapter, Chabibullah, said here on Monday.

The landlside had also cut off several roads leaving three villages - Tegalombo, Sumbersari and Selorejo - isolated.

The disaster did not claim any human life but killed more than ten livestock.

A public graveyard was also buried by the landslide.

(Uu.F001/HAJM)

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