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JAKARTA: Some 46 people lost lives and more than 300 injured in a 5.6-magnitude quake that rattled Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, a local official said.
Herman Suherman, a government official from Cianjur, the town in West Java where the epicentre of the quake was located, told news channel MetroTV that up to 20 people had died at one hospital in the area.
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“This is from one hospital, there are four hospitals in Cianjur,” he said, adding that it was possible the death and injury toll could rise.
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The national disaster agency reported 14 deaths.
Monday’s quake struck on land in Cianjur, about 75 km southeast of the capital Jakarta, and at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the weather and geophysics agency (BMKG) said, adding there was no potential for a tsunami.
