"Heavy downpour has caused landslides, burying five workers digging land in the village of Karang Mulya this afternoon," head of the data center and spokesman of BNPB Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said here on Tuesday.
Sutopo said the regional BPBD, the military and volunteers and local people had succeeded in evacuating the bodies of the victims.
Evacuation has been made manually as it is impossible to bring in heavy equipment to that location, he said.
He identified the five victims as Khotimah Binti Tahyid (50), Sapuroh Binti Nawawi (55), Rumanah Binti Wasrap (50) -- all women, and Tarmudi Bin Nurdi (60) and Akhamid Bin Dukat (45) both men.
"The victims were miners digging soil to be used as feedstock for bricks. The piles of earth suddenly fell on them when they were digging at a sloping ground 5 meter high," he said. (*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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