During a tsunami in the strait of Sunda between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, are at least 222 people killed come. Sure 843 people are injured. There are also still 28 missing persons. Thus did the authorities this morning known. The region, with dozens of hotels and restaurants, is very popular with tourists. There would be preliminary, however, no foreign tourists among the victims. According to a government spokesman, the deadly victims, “Indonesian tourists and local people”. Follow here the news about the tsunami on foot.
The tsunami reached Java, at half past ten in the evening with a 19-metre-high wall of water. The tide swept in the middle of the holiday season on popular toeristenstranden. Along both sides of the strait of Sunda were the coastal areas flooded. Because just at that moment flood, was the situation exacerbated by the simultaneous flooding.
