To Indonesia’s coast, came a Tsunami killed more than 220 people were killed. Nearly 1000 were injured, as the tidal wave coast, swept over the regions between the Islands of Java and Sumatra.
On Videos on the Internet to see how rescue workers search amid the rubble of destroyed houses for Survivors. An eye witness told the Indonesian news Agency, Antara News, and the newspaper “Jakarta Post”, he saw how the tsunami tore hundreds of people. On the beaches had stopped many tourists. Volunteers and authorities expect the number of victims continues to rise.
First medical aid and rescue teams are now in the Tsunami area in the province of Banten arrived. Dozens of ambulances have been reports in Tanjung lesung for the supply of the more than 600 injured in the use of Indonesian media. “Volunteers have reached Tanjung lesung and with Search and rescue work began,” said an eye witness to the news Agency Antara. Survivors donated for the homeless, Made Blankets and clothing.
The Tsunami, triggered apparently by a volcanic eruption
According to scientists, the Tsunami was triggered apparently by a volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatau. Thus, there had been a landslide under the water.
Numerous victims after the Tsunami in Indonesia
As a terrible mistake by the Indonesian authority for Geophysics (BMKG) issued the all-clear was. It said: You’ve registered an earthquake: “… was not a Tsunami, but a tidal wave. You remain calm.”
According to the foreign office in not a German citizen, according to the first findings to come to harm. There is “so far, no evidence of affected German,” said the crisis reaction centre in Berlin. The Embassy is trying “to get it as soon as possible certainty”. Travelers would be asked to “give instructions of local security forces,” it said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed to the Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, the condolences of the German. “The news and pictures from Indonesia are staggering. We mourn with the families of the victims and hope that now many people can be saved,” she said, according to a Deputy government spokesperson Ulrike Demmer on Twitter published message.
Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) reacted “with horror and great sadness” at the news from Indonesia. “Our thoughts are with the Victims, our sympathy goes out to their families,” tweeted Maas.
Again and again, the Tsunamis in Indonesia
Indonesia lies on the so-called Pacific ring of fire. There, it regularly comes to earthquakes, Tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Only at the end of September, had come two heavy quake followed by a Tsunami on the island of Sulawesi, more than 2,000 people have been killed.
Taken of the coast to both sides of the Sundastraße well-known Strait between Sumatra and Java
The tidal wave wakes for many Indonesians, the memories of the 26. December 2004. At the time, a seaquake of the strength of 9.1 had triggered off the North West coast of Sumatra, a Tsunami in the littoral States of the Indian ocean, more than 230,000 people perished. In Indonesia alone, at the time of 170,000 Deaths were registered.
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