Rescuers on Thursday retrieved three bodies from the rubble of a hotel struck by landslides and evacuated another person in Cianjur district in West Java, official of local disaster agency said.

That brought the total injured people to eight after parts of the hotel in Cipanas sub-district collapsed on Wednesday, said Hendri Setiabudi, head of operation control and data of disaster and management agency in the district.

"Four visitors of the hotels were found Thursday. Three of them were dead and another was alive,"he told Xinhua from the scene.

With the retrieval of the four victims, the search and rescue operation was terminated on Thursday.

Heavy downpours were blamed for the landslides, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of national disaster management agency, told Xinhua by phone.

Setiabudi said that the total death toll of the landslides in both Cipanas and Sukaremi sub-districts of Cianjur district rose to five with eight wounded and one missing.

Previously, Sutopo said that two people were killed and one went missing after landslides in Sukaresmi sub-district on Tuesday.

Landslide and floods are frequent in Indonesia during heavy rains.

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