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27 dead, 15 missing as Indonesia ends landslide search – Times of India

JAKARTA: Indonesian rescuers said Saturday they had ended the search for more than a dozen missing people after a landslide near an illegal gold mine killed at least 27.Following heavy rain, the landslide hit a remote village in Bone Balango district on the central island of Sulawesi a week ago.With the search effort called off and 15 people still missing, the toll could rise further, according to rescue officials."The search and rescue carried out the operation for seven days according to the standard operating procedure. Today is the last day," local search and rescue agency head Heriyanto, who goes by one name, told AFP."If there are signs of the missing victims with valid and accurate evidence and based on the request of the Bone Balango government, we will conduct an evacuation ope...

12 Killed, 18 Missing After Downpour Causes Landslide At Illegal Gold Mine In Indonesia

At least 12 people were killed and 18 remain missing after heavy rain over the weekend resulted in a landslide at an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's Sulawesi island. According to a Reuters report, the landslide occurred on Sunday morning in a remote village in the Bone Bolango district of Gorontalo province. The people killed include miners and residents who lived near the mine. Five people who survived the incident were moved, while search operations continued for the missing. Heriyanto, head of the local rescue agency, told Reuters that 164 personnel comprising the national rescue team, police and military personnel, were searching for the missing people. Reaching the landslide site, he said, requires a walk of about 20 kilometres amid continuing ra...

Coral bleachings devastate Bali reefs as sea temperatures rise – Times of India

BONDALEM: Indonesian conservationist Nyoman Sugiar to has been working for 16 years to preserve coral on the reefs of Bali, but the frequency of mass coral bleachings he says is now devastating. Ninety percent of the corals Sugiarto had nurtured on the reefs near his village in Bondalem, in northern shore of Bali, lost their colour last December. "It was all white.We were shocked and of course, it also negatively affected the coral we planted. It's not just the natural ones," 51-year-old Sugiarto told Reuters. When Sugiarto began coral conservation projects in 2008 he was told that coral could retain the living algae which gives it colour for 10 to 20 years. Yet, the coral reefs off Bondalem were bleached in less than 10 years, he says, blaming warmer sea temperatures triggered by cl...