At least 18 people have been killed and another 90 are missing following a landslide in Indonesia.

Hundreds have been evacuated from their homes in central Java after the landslide hit on Friday night.

The village of Jemblung is reported to have been almost entirely destroyed as a result of the disaster. 

Pictures from the area showed a flood of orange coloured mud and water cascading down a wooded mountainside.

Five of the dead were reportedly found in one car.

Bulldozers were brought in to help find survivors, with villagers forced to use their bare hands to dig through the debris.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the country's national disaster agency, said "conditions on the ground are pretty tough and we need heavy machines to clear the road that has been covered by the landslide."

Originally published at 8.20am