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Reuters, Jakarta

About 40 people are missing after floods triggered by heavy rain swept away a bridge in Indonesia's East Java province, police said on Thursday.

The floods engulfed cars and motorcycles passing the bridge in Madiun district on Wednesday, said a local police officer, who declined to give his name.

Two people were rescued but no bodies have been found, he said. No other details were available.

About 80 people are feared dead in landslides and floods in the neighboring Central Java province.

Indonesian rescuers pulled corpses from mud Thursday as they hunted for victims of landslides and floods on Java island that have left more than 130 people feared dead, officials said.

Landslides hit two districts in Central Java in the early hours of Wednesday morning, engulfing entire homes and blocking key access roads, while floods swelling in East Java swept away a bridge, leaving an estimated 50 missing.