Indonesia:Hundreds are injured and killed in the Java earthquake.

 

 

 

Officials claim that dozens of people have died and hundreds have been injured in an earthquake on the main island of Java in Indonesia.

 

 

According to data from the US Geological Survey, the 5.6 magnitude quake struck the town of Cianjur in West Java at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (six miles).
Numerous individuals were transported to hospitals, with many receiving treatment outside.
Attempts to rescue others thought to be still trapped beneath collapsed buildings have been made by rescue workers throughout the night.
The region where the tremor struck is thickly populated and inclined to avalanches, with ineffectively fabricated houses diminished to rubble in numerous areas.
The specific number of individuals killed up until this point stays muddled.The official death toll from the disaster, according to Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), was 62, although the 162 number provided by regional governor Ridwan Kamil remains unverified.
Mr. Kamil told the local media that the earthquake had injured 326 people and that "most of them sustained fractures from being crushed in ruins."
But he said that officials were "under the assumption that the number of injured and deaths will rise with time" and that some residents were still "trapped in isolated places."
The BNPB reported that more than 2,200 homes had been damaged by the quake, and the governor of West Java added that the disaster had displaced more than 13,000 people.
A school building in Cianjur, West Java, that has collapsed According to Herman Suherman, the head of administration in Cianjur town, the majority of injuries were caused by people being trapped by building debris.

 

 

"The ambulances continue to come from the towns to the clinic," he was cited by AFP news office as expressing prior in the day. "There are numerous families in towns that poor person been emptied."
According to the governor of West Java, many of the injured were treated outside in a hospital parking lot after the hospital was without power for several hours following the earthquake.
Mr. Kamil wrote on Twitter on Monday night that the area might not have power completely restored for up to three days.He went on to say that officials were having "a lot of problems" as a result of the poor mobile phone reception.