at Least 62 people have died in a tsunami in Indonesia on Saturday night.
It informs the disaster management in the southeast asian country on the night of Sunday, Danish time. It writes the news agency Reuters.
in Addition, almost 600 people were injured and twenty people being reported missing.
the Tsunami hit several beaches around the Interior between the islands of Java and Sumatra shortly before sunset.
– It was due to a combination of submarine landslides from volcanic activity near the volcanic island of Krakatau, and a tidal wave, telling the spokesman for the disaster management Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
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Photo: AP
Krakatua is an approximately 800 metre high volcanic island in the middle of the Interior. After several explosive eruptions occurred in 1927 a new volcano, Anak Krakatau, which is very active. It writes vulkaneksperten.dk. It is the volcanic activity from this volcano, according to the authorities, have triggered the submarine landslides.
the Tsunami hit several areas in the Interior, including the beaches in Pandeglang, Serang and Lampung, about at 21:30 local time.
It is not yet succeed rescuers to reach Banten province. Therefore, it is the police who provide assistance to wounded and killed in the area. This was stated by the head of the disaster response Than Permana says to Metro TV.
– Many have missed, says Permana.
On the videos and the images from the different areas of destroyed buildings, flooded streets and cars turned upside down. It recounts the british broadcaster BBC.
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Photo: AP
In september was at least 1944 people killed when a violent earthquake and a subsequent tsunami hit the city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi, east of Borneo.
the natural disaster smashed the Sulawesis infrastructure, wiped out several villages and destroyed more than 3000 homes. Around 70,000 people, including tens of thousands of children, were driven from their homes.
There are approximately 2000 kilometers between the Interior and Sulawesi.
the foreign ministry’s Citizen service informs that at three o’clock on the night of Sunday, no reports of the wounded danes.
– the Ministry of foreign affairs is following the situation in Indonesia. The ministry of foreign affairs at the present time, not knowing that there are danes among those injured. The ministry of foreign affairs calls for the danes on the spot follow the local authorities advice and instructions, reads the announcement.