Posted on 02/21/2005 8:44:39 AM PST by Dog Gone
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A 30-foot-tall heap of garbage collapsed onto a neighborhood today, killing 19 people and crushing dozens of houses, officials said.
More than 100 people were missing in the collapse near the West Java town of Bandung, which came after days of torrential rains, said police chief Capt. Suciati Rahni.
Residents and scavengers who eke out a living by sorting through the refuse and reselling recyclable items also were believed to have been caught in the collapse.
"We fear that more than 100 residents died because 46 houses were crushed by debris while families slept inside in the early morning," Rahni said by telephone from the site.
She said rescuers were using heavy machinery to remove the garbage.
Bandung is about 110 miles southeast of Jakarta.
The garbage pile was only 30 feet high?
This is a tragedy, certainly, but how can a 30 foot high pile of garbage collapse in such a manner as to encompass and crush 46 houses?
I think something must be wrong with this story.
Even if you could get the pile to fall from the verticle, it would not cover an area large enough to crush 46 houses.
Sh*t falls on houses in Bandung, how ironic.
"This is a tragedy, certainly, but how can a 30 foot high pile of garbage collapse in such a manner as to encompass and crush 46 houses?"
Maybe it was 30 ft. high after it crushed the houses?
Apparently this was part landslide, part garbage, from reading other accounts. Apparently the dump was on a hill near the edge of town.
That stinks.
... and the world accuses the U.S. of being such terrible polluters.
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