At Least 8 Killed in Indonesia Flash Floods (Video)

Flash floods on Java island, Indonesia, killed at least eight people on Friday, according to the disaster agency.

Torrential rains on Thursday unleashed flash floods in Malang and the highland city of Batu. Houses were flooded with mud and debris, while a wall of water destroyed local bridges.

Rescuers were able to pull out six people from the detritus alive, and they found a half dozen bodies in Batu and two more victims in Malang.

On Friday, teams raced to find several more people unaccounted for in Batu, according to Indonesia's national disaster mitigation agency, as the dead were placed in body bags.

"Until now, we are still trying to find three people still missing," the agency's chairman Abdul Muhari said in a statement.

Notably, fatal landslides and flash floods are common across the Southeast Asian archipelago during the rainy season, which started in September.

Environmentalists believe that disasters are often caused by deforestation and poor mitigation planning.

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Last month, seven people were killed in a landslide triggered by torrential storms in Sumatra.

In the same manner, more than 200 people were killed, in April, in a cluster of far-eastern islands in Indonesia and neighboring Timor Leste as Tropical Cyclone Seroja turned small communities into wastelands of mud and uprooted trees.