The shallow magnitude 5.6 quake strikes in mountains in Indonesia's most populous province of West Java, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur and burying at least one village under a landslide.
CIANJUR, Indonesia – Many children killed when their schools collapsed are among the 252 dead from an earthquake that devastated a town on Indonesia’s main island of Java, officials said on Tuesday, November 22, as rescuers raced to reach people trapped in rubble.
Landslides and rough terrain were hampering rescue efforts, said Henri Alfiandi, head of National Search and Rescue Agency . “My instruction is to prioritise evacuating victims that are still trapped under rubble,” said the president, who is known as Jokowi. “Everything collapsed beneath me and I was crushed beneath this child,” Cucu, a 48-year-old resident, told Reuters.
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