인도네시아 지진 384명 사망...더 늘어날 듯 Death toll jumps to 384 after tsunami, quake in Indonesia

Death toll jumps to 384 after tsunami, quake in Indonesia

Massive waves swept many to their death.

Bodies found along shoreline.

Many collapsed buildings, at least 540 injured.

Rescue efforts hindered by power outage.

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The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to 384 on Saturday, authorities said, with many of those killed swept away by giant waves as they played on the beach.

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인도네시아 지진 384명 사망...더 늘어날 듯   인도네시아 술라웨시 섬 북부에서 발생한 강진과 쓰나미로 목숨을 잃은 사람의 수가 384명으로 급증한 것으로 파악됐다. 29일 인도네시아 현지 언론은 인도네시아 국가재난방지청(BNPB)을 인용해 중부 술라웨시 주 팔루와 동갈라 리젠시(군·郡) 일대를 덮친 규모 7.5의 지진으로 최소 384명이 숨진 것으로 조사됐다고 보도했다. (서울=연합뉴스) 김토일 기자    쓰나미(TSUNAMI) 어떻게 발생하나 인도네시아 덮친 강진·쓰나미, "사망자 수천명까지 늘어날 수도" http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/09/29/2018092901949.html edited by kcontents

Strong aftershocks continued to rock the coastal city on Saturday morning after waves up to six meters (18 feet) high swept through the scenic tourist town on Friday, triggered by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake on land.

"When the (tsunami) threat arose yesterday, people were still doing their activities on the beach and did not immediately run and they became victims," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency BNPB said in news briefing in Jakarta.

Hundreds of people were preparing for a beach festival to celebrate Palu's anniversary. The festival was due to start Friday night.

Some people climbed six meter (18 feet) trees to escape the tsunami and survived, Nugroho said.

Photos confirmed by authorities showed bodies being lined up along the street on Saturday, some in bags and some with their faces covered with clothes.

Amateur footage shown by local TV stations, which could not immediately be authenticated by Reuters, showed waters crashing into houses along Palu's shoreline, scattering shipping containers and flooding into a mosque in the city.

Nugroho described the damage as "extensive" with thousands of houses, hospitals, shopping malls and hotels collapsed, a bridge washed away and the main highway to Palu cut due to a landslide.

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Bodies of some victims were found trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, he said, adding 540 people were injured.

Dozens of injured people were being treated in makeshift medical tents set up outdoors, TV images showed.

Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the quake, but lifted it 34 minutes later. The agency has been widely criticized for not informing a tsunami had hit Palu on Saturday, though officials said waves had come within the time the warning was issued.

The quake and tsunami caused a major power outage that cut communications around Palu and on Saturday authorities were still having difficulties coordinating rescue efforts.

The disaster mitigation agency has not been able to get any information from the fishing town of Donggala, closer to the epicenter of the quake 27 km (16 miles) away. More than 600,000 people live in Donggala and Palu.

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