Wooden villa in Jatiluwih hit by landslide after heavy rain the previous night, official says
Agence France-Presse
Thu 14 Mar 2024 10.54 CET
Two tourists, including an Australian woman, have been killed on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after heavy rain triggered a landslide that swept away their villa, an official said on Thursday.
Large areas of the archipelago of 17,000 islands are prone to flooding and landslides during the wet season which starts around November.
The wooden villa in Jatiluwih village on the popular tourist island was hit by the landslide on Thursday morning after a downpour in the area the previous night, local disaster mitigation agency official I Nyoman Srinadha Giri told AFP.
The intense rain eroded water canals used for irrigation that sit above the villa and triggered the landslide, killing the two, according to the official.
“The victims were evacuated from the debris while in sleeping…