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The search and rescue team has found difficulties to deploy heavy equipment to evacuate victims of the landslide in Sukabumi district in West Java due to rain and the hard access to the location, a spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

"It was raining in the location. The road was too steep and stony, and under this rain it would be difficult for the team to evacuate the victims," Sutopo said in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Sutopo said, the electricity and communication network in the area were shut down.

"Communication with our team in the field were made via handy talkie," he said.

He confirmed that the landslide in Cimapag Village of Sukabumi on Monday has claimed two lives, 41 others went missing, three injured and 61 people are in evacuation camp.

The rescue team continued to search the victims. As of 2.30 a.m. on Tuesday the agency has recorded 32 families or 107 people were affected by the landslide.

The Regional Natural Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Sukabumi has sent a tram to the site.

"For now, we have recorded 30 houses were buried by the landslide," Sutopo said. (ANTARA)