JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian rescuers recovered the bodies of at least 17 people who were swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the country’s main island of Java, officials said Tuesday. Eight people were missing.
Torrential rains on Monday caused rivers to burst their banks, tearing through nine villages in the Pekalongan regency of Central Java Province, as mud, rocks, and trees tumbled down on mountainside hamlets, said Bergas Catursasi, who heads the local Disaster Management Agency.
