Heavy rain halts search for 30 people still missing after Indonesian landslide

(BASARNAS/AP)

Heavy rain on Wednesday halted the search for 30 people believed to be trapped under a landslide that engulfed an unauthorised gold mine on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island over the weekend, killing at least 23 people.

More than 100 people were digging for grains of gold in the remote village of Bone Bolango in Gorontalo province on Sunday when tons of mud plunged down the surrounding hills and buried their makeshift camps.