Indonesian tsunami has killed 222 people, aerial photography of Krakatau volcano billowing in smoke
The Indonesian Disaster Relief Agency confirmed on the evening of the 23rd that the number of victims caused by the tsunami that occurred on the evening of the 22nd in the Sunda Strait in western Indonesia has risen to 222. At present, a large number of local residents have been evacuated due to the tsunami, and the Anti-Disaster Agency is collecting relevant data.
A spokesman for the Anti-Disaster Agency Sutopo said in a statement that as of 16:00 local time on the 23rd, the tsunami also caused 843 injuries and 28 missing. 556 houses, 9 hotels and 60 restaurants were severely damaged. 350 Many ships were damaged. The dead and injured were mainly tourists and local people. Pantiran County, Banten Province, Indonesia was the worst-hit area, with 164 people dead, 624 injured, and 2 missing.
Sutopo said that a joint search and rescue team composed of the military and police, the National Search and Rescue Bureau, the Red Cross and local people and volunteers is conducting emergency rescue. As the search and rescue and statistical work continues, it is expected that the casualties and property losses caused by this disaster will further increase.
According to the staff of the search and rescue command center, five Taiwanese citizens of China were missing in the tsunami.
At present, search and rescue personnel are digging the ruins of houses day and night, trying to find the survivors and transfer the remains of the victims. The picture broadcast by Indonesian television showed that the police successfully rescued a child from a car buried by a fallen tree and ruins on the afternoon of the 23rd, and his condition was good.
A tsunami broke out at 21:27 local time on the 22nd in the Sunda Strait, and some coastal areas in Bantieran, Serang and Lampung provinces were attacked. The Indonesian Bureau of Meteorology, Climate and Geophysics said in a statement issued on the 23rd that since the tsunami was not triggered by an earthquake, the authorities did not issue a tsunami warning.
It is reported that it is initially suspected that the tsunami was caused by the landslide of the seabed rock layer caused by the eruption of the Krakatau volcano and the high tide caused by the full moon. Krakatau volcano is located in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It is an active volcano and is currently in an active period.
Indonesia is located in the Pacific Rim Seismic Belt, where earthquakes and tsunamis occur frequently. At the end of September this year, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred in Dongara County, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The earthquake and the resulting tsunami killed more than 2,000 people.