Overview
- The pre-dawn Saturday slide swept down Mount Burangrang, engulfing a marine training area and parts of Pasir Langu in West Bandung.
- Officials confirmed 17 deaths, with 11 identified, and said dozens remain unaccounted for, including 19 marines from a 23-member unit.
- The navy reported four marines among the dead, noting the unit had been training for an extended deployment near the Papua New Guinea border.
- More than 2,000 military, police and volunteers are using excavators, water pumps, drones and hand digging as narrow access and unstable ground complicate the search, with mud as deep as eight meters in places.
- Authorities attributed the disaster to days of heavy rain, and local agencies reported widespread home damage and evacuations numbering in the hundreds.