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Twenty-three soldiers died in Indonesia's West Java landslides, official says

On Saturday, a landslide struck Pasir Langu village, Bandung Barat, burying a marine training site and confirming 23 Indonesian marines dead during exercises, First Admiral Tunggul said.
Heavy rain over consecutive nights left steep hillsides near Mount Burangrang saturated and triggered a slope failure, while West Java governor Dedi Mulyadi blamed local plantations around Pasir Langu.
More than 800 rescuers including military and police, supported by nine excavators, searched while unstable ground and rain forced manual searches and repeated halts, Abdul Muhari said.
Rescuers reported mud, rocks and fallen trees that trapped soldiers and slowed recovery, with families of victims gathered near the site as the National Disaster Management Agency confirmed at least 38 deaths.
The landslide comes during the peak wet season, when Java island wet season regularly brings floods and landslides, following recent floods last week and a Sumatra cyclone event that killed 1,200 months ago.

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