{"id":14739,"date":"2019-03-18T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14739"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:40:30","slug":"second-malaysian-reported-killed-in-indonesias-lombok-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14739","title":{"rendered":"Second Malaysian reported killed in Indonesia’s Lombok quake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Mohd Shukri Ishak
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Datin Tai Siew Kim. Photo courtesy Bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

JAKARTA, March 18 (Bernama) — A second Malaysian is reported to have been killed in the quake-triggered landslide in Lombok, Indonesia, which claimed the life of a Malaysian journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indonesia\u2019s Antara news agency reported that rescuers found the body of the victim wedged between the rock debris of the landslide at the Tiu Kelep waterfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journalist has been identified as Datin Tai Siew Kim, 56, deputy executive chief editor of Sin Chew Daily, who was on holiday there with several other Malaysians, according to the head of public relations at the National Board for Disaster Management, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antara quoted the public relations officer of the Mataram Search and Rescue Operation, Gusti Lanang  Wisnuwandana, as saying that the body of the second Malaysian could not be removed from the debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe body of one more person has been found, wedged between large rocks, in the vicinity of the Tiu Kelep waterfall. The identity has yet to be ascertained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake and a 5.2-magnitude aftershock struck Lombok\u00a0in Indonesia just after 2 pm (3 pm Malaysian Time) Sunday, also injured 44 others and destroyed almost 500 houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Mohd Shukri Ishak JAKARTA, March 18 (Bernama) — A second Malaysian is reported to have been killed in the quake-triggered landslide in Lombok, Indonesia, which claimed the life of a Malaysian journalist. Indonesia\u2019s Antara news agency reported that rescuers found the body of the victim wedged between the rock debris of the landslide at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}