Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud and debris today in a desperate search for survivors after a flood from a burst dam killed at least 77 people outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. But they were losing hope the 100 still missing would be found alive.

Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud and debris today looking for bodies after a dam burst outside Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, demolishing hundreds of houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 69 people. Dozens more were missing.

TORRENTIAL rain caused a colonial-era dam to burst outside the Indonesian capital early yesterday, sending a wall of muddy water crashing into a densely packed neighbourhood and killing at least 58 people.