Eleven people were killed and 13 are missing on a remote Indonesian island after a landslide following heavy rains.
The landslide happened on Sangihe island late yesterday. Sangihe is in the sea between Manado, the North Sulawesi capital 2,200 kilometres northeast of Jakarta, and Mindanao, a southern island of the Philippines.
"We are working to send body bags and aid via the sea although it takes 12 hours from Manado to reach there since it is not possible to transport them via air. The weather is bad," an official said.
Communications were difficult because the telecommunications office had been flooded, he added.