Dozens still missing after Indonesian landslide leaves 17 dead

A injured victim of a landslide is attended to in Suwawa (BASARNAS via AP)

Dozens of people are missing after a landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorised gold mining operation in Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing at least 17 people, officials said.

More than 100 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote Bone Bolango district in Gorontalo when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps, said Heriyanto, head of the Search and Rescue Office.