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Lucia Stein, Emily Clark and Lucy Sweeney

A shallow tremor in a densely populated town made this Indonesia’s deadliest earthquake this year

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake that struck Indonesia's island of West Java has killed at least 268 people, with authorities warning some people remained trapped in isolated places.

Residents appeared to be caught off-guard as the ground beneath them began to shake with tremors at 1:21pm (local time) on Monday.

Many school children were just finishing up their lessons and preparing to make their way to extra classes when the moderate tremor hit, damaging buildings and littering streets with debris.

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