17 dead, 91 missing in landslide

• At least 17 dead, 91 missing after Friday landslide in Indonesia's Java island


• At least 105 houses in Sampang village were buried, state news agency reports


• Video shows water still rushing along landslide path Saturday

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Dozens of men stood in fresh mud in an Indonesian valley laid waste just hours before by sliding earth, one by one struggling to pass what appeared to be a body bag up a hill.

Volunteers, police and rescuers sifted through smashed homes and other debris in the mountainous, central portion of Java island on Saturday, one day after a landslide that authorities said killed at least 17 people.

Heavy rains in recent days triggered a rush of mud, rocks and trees from the mountains overlooking Java's Banjarnegara District on Friday evening. At least 91 people were missing, the country's disaster management agency said.

Another 15 people were injured, 11 of them seriously. The landslide buried at least 105 houses in and near Sampang village, the Antara state news agency reported.

Video from local television showed muddy water still rushing along paths of the landslide Saturday. A wall of newly fallen earth -- at least 15 feet tall, judging by the men standing at the base -- blocked a paved road.

Elsewhere, people tried to gather belongings from a wooden house that had been torn open by the debris.

Still more footage showed dozens of people, some crying, gathered Friday night at a hospital where injured had been taken.

The military, local Red Cross officials, police, volunteers, and the national search and rescue agency joined in a rescue mission in the affected area, the disaster management agency said. But it was later suspended due to pouring rain.

Friday's landslide came a day after two other slides killed two people in or near Banjarnegara District, Antara reported. One of Thursday's slides, in Banjarnegara's Wanayasa area, displaced more than 350 people, according to the state news outlet.

Landslides and flash floods are seasonal occurrences in the Southeast Asia archipelago, where mountainous terrain and heavy rains make for prime slide conditions.

Satellite data appears to show parts of central Java have received about 200 millimeters (7.9 inches) of rain so far this month. That would be roughly the amount that the area gets on average the entire month of December.

More showers are expected in the area in the next three days.

It wasn't clear exactly how much rain fell Friday in Banjarnegara District. But about 95 kilometers (60 miles) to the southwest, some 108 millimeters (4.25 inches) of rainfall was reported in the Java port city of Cilicap on Friday.

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CNN's Kathy Quiano reported from Jakarta and Jason Hanna reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN Meteorologist Judson Jones and CNN's Ben Brumfield contributed to this report.