Indonesia says 168 people killed in tsunami - media


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Dec 2018

A villager walks past a car damaged by a tsunami, in Carita, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. The tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed a number of people around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, sending a wall of water crashing some 65 feet (20 meters) inland and sweeping away hundreds of houses including hotels, the government and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Dian Triyuli Handoko)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A tsunami killed at least 168 people and injured 745 on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, a spokesperson for the disaster mitigation agency told media on Sunday.

(Reporting by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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