Two foreign tourists, including an Australian woman, were killed in the Indonesian resort of Bali after heavy rain triggered a landslide that swept away their villa, an official said on Thursday.
Large areas of the 17,000-island archipelago are prone to flooding and landslides during the rainy season, which begins around November.
A wooden villa in Jatiluwih village on the popular tourist island was hit by a landslide on Thursday morning after a downpour in the area the previous night, local disaster mitigation agency official I Nyoman Srinadha Giri told AFP.
Heavy rain eroded water channels used for irrigation located above the villa and triggered a landslide that killed the two, according to the official.
“The victims were evacuated from the wreckage in sleeping (positions). There were two victims, a man and a woman in one bed,” he said.
The victim, 47, was born in Australia and had permanent residency in the United States, while the nationality and identity of the male victim remained unknown.
The bodies of the victims were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Denpasar.
Landslides in Indonesia have been exacerbated in some places by deforestation, with prolonged torrential rains causing flooding in some areas.
