Dozens missing after landslides

Urgent mission: A rescue team searching for victims following landslides in the Natuna islands. — AFP

RESCUERS were searching for 42 people still missing after two landslides triggered by torrential rains hit villages on an island in Indonesia’s remote Natuna regency, disaster officials said.

Dozens of soldiers, police and volunteers joined the search yesterday in the Genting and Pangkalan villages on a remote island surrounded by choppy waters and high waves in the Natuna group at the edge of the South China Sea.