Massive landslide triggered by 5.6-magnitude tremor complicates rescuers’ grim efforst to find survivors
Huge landslide triggered by 5.6-magnitude tremor complicates rescuers’ grim efforts to find survivorsA man inspects the remains of his house in the town of Cianjur in Indonesia's West Java province on November 22 2022, the day after an earthquake hit Indonesia.
“The challenge is the affected area is spread out ... On top of that, the roads in these villages are damaged,” Alfiandi said at a news conference, adding that more than 13,000 people had been evacuated. Survivors gathered overnight in a Cianjur hospital parking lot. Some of the injured were treated in tents, others were hooked up to intravenous drips on the pavement as medical workers attended to patients under torch light.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed to help the rescue effort, Dedi Prasetyo, national police spokesperson told the Antara state news agency.West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said at least 162 people were killed, many of them children, while the national disaster agency put the toll at 103, with 31 missing.
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