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Indonesia ends search for landslide victims

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-01 14:58
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JAKARTA: Indonesia on Monday officially ended the searching operation of landslide victims in Tenjojaya Village of Bandung Regency in West Java province at 12:00 local time (0500 GMT), MetroTV private television station reported.

Residence said that they already gave up in finding their relatives alive.

As of 12:00 local time, the evacuation team has found 33 bodies and has yet to find other 11 victims after six day-evacuation.

They approved the landslide location to become a mass grave for unfound victims.