JAKARTA, INDONESIA - A landslide triggered by heavy rains on the north coast of Indonesia's Central Java has left two people dead and five missing, a health ministry official said Wednesday.

The landslide slammed into houses in Sindangwangi village shortly after dusk on Tuesday, said Rustam Pakaya, who heads the health ministry's Crisis Centre.

Two bodies have been recovered while a search for five other people who were in the three buried houses continued, he said in a telephone text message.

Six other houses were seriously damaged and two bridges were destroyed, the official said, adding that one person was also injured.

Deadly landslides as well as floods are not unusual during Indonesia's rainy season, which hits a peak from around December to February.