array:5 [
  "tid" => "64952"
  "name" => "by Our Foreign Desk"
  "description" => null
  "role" => null
  "link" => "/author//author/our-foreign-desk"
]
Heavy rains halts search for missing people trapped under Indonesia landslide | Morning Star Skip to main content
Heavy rains halts search for missing people trapped under Indonesia landslide
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers search for victims at the site of a landslide in Suwawa on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, July 10, 2024 Photo: BASARNAS via AP

INCESSANT rains today halted the search for 30 people believed trapped under a landslide that engulfed an unauthorised gold mine on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island over the weekend.

More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote and hilly village of Bone Bolango in Gorontalo province when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps.

The search was suspended yesterday afternoon due to heavy rains and rescuers have not yet been able to locate the missing people.

Liberation webinar, 30 November2024, 6pm (UK)
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Syria's interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa (right) leaves the
World / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
Lebanese citizens check the destruction on their house cause
World / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
A picture of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turke
World / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Similar stories
World / 27 September 2024
27 September 2024
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, June 30, 2024
World / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Emergency workers respond at the Okhmatdyt children's hospit
World / 8 July 2024
8 July 2024