14 Dead in Mudslide, Up to 400 Believed Buried

Fourteen people are confirmed dead and up to 400 are feared buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in a remote gold-prospecting town in northern Bolivia, officials said.

A mountainside washed into Chima, 125 miles north of the capital, La Paz, Monday, burying more than 100 houses in mud.

“There must be between 300 and 400 people buried there,” Defense Minister Freddy Teodovic said. The U.S. Embassy lent rescue teams, four helicopters and an airplane, but weather hampered air travel to the area.

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INDONESIA

Rescuers Search for Landslide Survivors

Villagers and police searched for survivors from a series of devastating landslides and floods in eastern Indonesia that left at least eight people dead and 27 others missing.

Bernadus Guru, a senior official in Ende, capital of Flores island, said all those missing were feared dead.

Floods rushed down Meja Mountain on Monday as most residents slept. The water swept away houses, damaged bridges and cut off phone lines on the island, 1,030 miles east of the capital, Jakarta.