Overview
- Indonesia reports at least 18 dead across Central Java, with 16 fatalities in Cilacap and two in Banjarnegara, and authorities searching for 34 people still unaccounted for.
- More than 500 Indonesian rescuers, backed by 22 excavators and 18 sniffer dogs, continued a fifth day of searches through deep mud and unstable slopes.
- Indonesia’s disaster agency is conducting cloud-seeding operations to stabilize weather for recovery and has set aside temporary housing sites that could relocate nearly 300 families.
- In Vietnam, a landslide on the Khanh Le pass buried a passenger bus traveling from Da Lat to Nha Trang, killing six and injuring 19, with access delayed for hours by slides blocking both approaches.
- Central Vietnam is seeing broader disruption, with highways and mountain passes closed, factories flooded, and over 800 train passengers stranded, as forecasts call for up to 60 centimeters of rain through midweek.