The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake hit on land close to the town of Cianjur in a mountainous area of Indonesia’s most populous province. The tremor on Monday afternoon prompted panicked residents to flee onto the streets as buildings collapsed.
“Everything collapsed beneath me and I was crushed beneath this child,” Cucu, a 48-year-old resident, told Reuters, from the crowded hospital parking area. At least 162 people were killed in Monday’s quake, many of them children, with more than 300 injured, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said, warning some residents remained trapped in isolated places.
“Most of the casualties are children because at 1 pm they were still at school,” he said of the time the quake hit.The national disaster agency said 62 people were killed, and it was yet to verify the 100 additional victims.channel that 20 people had been evacuated from Cugenang so far, most of whom had died, with residents still reporting missing family members.
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