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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Johan Purnomo and Stefanno Sulaiman

Indonesia quake kills at least 268 people, many of them children at school

Rescuers carry a body bag with a victim through the rubble of collapsed buildings during a rescue operation after earthquake hit in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 22, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Yulius Satria Wijaya/ via REUTERS

An earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Java killed at least 268 people, many of them children, with 151 still missing, disaster relief officials said on Tuesday, as rescuers searched the rubble of destroyed buildings for survivors.

The shallow 5.6-magnitude quake struck in Indonesia's most populous province on Monday afternoon, causing significant damage to the town of Cianjur, about 75 km (45 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta, and burying at least one village under a landslide.

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