Landslide damages three classrooms

Landslide damages three classrooms

BOGOR: Students of Public Elementary School No. IV in
Hambalang village, Bogor, West Jakarta, are now having to share
space after three of the school's six classrooms were damaged by
a landslide on Sunday.

The slide knocked down the walls of the grade five and six
classrooms. The second grade classroom remains intact, but its
walls are badly cracked.

"We don't dare use the room as we are afraid that the walls
might collapse," said the school's principal, Marzuki.

He added that educational activities for all grades were
taking place as usual, with students taking turns using the
school's three unaffected classrooms and the library, which had
been temporarily converted into a classroom.

The landslide occurred at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday after three days
of continuous rain. Aside from the school, 10 houses in the
village were also damaged. --JP