(24 Feb 2010) SHOTLIST :
1. Tilt down from hill to landslide covering houses
2. Mid of police and military officers searching for victims amongst debris
3. Close up police and military officers searching for victims
4. Mid of rescue team carrying body bag
5. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Yaya, villager:
"It was 8 in the morning, I was getting ready to work when I heard loud, a sound like thunder and I saw the trees and the land collapsed."
6. Various of police officers searching through mud
7. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Agus Heru, West Java Police Chief
"We found 6 bodies yesterday afternoon, we predict that there are remaining 32 people buried in the area."
8. Close up military officers carrying body bag
9. Mid shot of same
10. Rescuers standing at the scene
11. Mid shot rescue team searching for victim in front of damaged house
12. Wide shot landslide over houses
STORYLINE:
Rescuers used heavy digging equipment Wednesday to move tons of dislodged clay strewn with splintered remnants of upended houses after a mudslide on Indonesia''s main island of Java buried dozens, leaving at least 46 dead or missing, officials said.
Officials had earlier said 72 had probably died but later revised the figure down.
At least 17 bodies have been pulled from the rubble, but many more are believed trapped.
Days of heavy rain prompted the landslide on Tuesday afternoon at a mountainous tea plantation near the village of Tenjoljaya in Ciwidey district of West Java province, destroying scores of homes.
Some village houses and plantation buildings survived unscathed above where terraced rows of tea plants cleaved off the hillside and slid to a
plain below.
Scores of houses as well as the plantation office and warehouse were rolled and crushed as they slid down the hillside with a swath of top soil
and mud hundreds of yards (meters) wide.
Around 600 terrified survivors fled their hillside homes for tents on safer ground, fearing more of the mountainside would collapse under the
continuing soaking rain, said National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono.
Soldiers carried victims in orange body bags back up the hill through the tea plants to be identified.
By late Wednesday, 17 bodies had been recovered, Kardono said.
Many of the victims were plantation labourers who lived in huts on the plantation.
Most of the recovered bodies of men, women and a child were dug up from the residential area.
Villagers unearthed the first victims late Tuesday using farm tools and bare hands.
At the site of the landslide, West Java Police Chief Agus Heru confirmed at least 6 bodies had been retrieved on Tuesday.
Heru said authorities believed there were at least 32 people buried under the mud.
More than 100 soldiers, policemen, and Red Cross volunteers joined the search effort on Wednesday supported by two excavators.
But the search was postponed Wednesday afternoon due to heavy rain.
Vice President Boediono, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, visited the site Wednesday, accompanied by several government ministers.
Landslides are a common hazard in Indonesia during the current latter weeks of the monsoon season.
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