Indonesia mudslides swallow whole towns
600 missing in mud up to 65 feet deep
Posted: October 4, 2009 at 4:57 a.m.
The death toll from Indonesia's earthquake will likely double as officials on Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people, most of them guests at a wedding celebration.
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