10 dead as landslide hits passing cars on Indonesia’s Java island

The landslide engulfed passing cars on a road in Mojokerto, East Java. Picture: AP

Indonesian rescuers recovered 10 bodies after a landslide struck vehicles on a hilly road on the country’s main island of Java, police said.

Torrential rains pushed mud, rocks and trees down the mountainside road on Thursday, burying a van with seven people aboard and a pick-up truck with three traders and full of vegetables near Watu Lumpang, a resort area in East Java’s Mojokerto district.