JAKARTA, Nov 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – A total of 162 people have died, after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s West Java province yesterday, officials said.
The quake has also caused heavy damages to many houses, buildings and infrastructure facilities. The tremors were strongly felt in the national capital, Jakarta.
Up to 13,784 people were forced to flee their homes and take shelter, as their houses were damaged by the quake, according to data issued by the disaster management and mitigation agency of the district of Cianjur, one of the hardest-hit areas.
The infrastructure facilities damaged by the quake include roads, a bridge, school buildings, office buildings, mosques and health facilities, it said.
The significant rise of the number of casualties was due to a new report of landslides, that buried about 100 residents, Nena Fatimah, senior officer at the data and information unit of the district’s disaster management and mitigation agency, said.
The agency set 47 centres providing aid, including food and medicine, for the quake-impacted victims, according to the National Disaster Management Agency spokesman, Abdul Muhari.
The injured have been treated at hospitals in the district of Cianjur in the province, according to head of the National Disaster Management Agency, Suharyanto.– NNN-ANTARA
