According to National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), the number of people who lost their lives in the 5.6-magnitude earthquake in the Cianjur region of Indonesia’s West Java province increased to 56 and more than 700 have been recorded injured. Search and rescue efforts continue.
In the area where many buildings and a boarding school were damaged, 25 more aftershocks were recorded in the last 2 hours.
Communication with the region is troublesome due to the power outages.
In 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 had killed approximately 226,000 people in Sumatra in northern Indonesia.