The death toll from the earthquake that struck the main island of Java in Indonesia this week has risen to 310 people, according to the Disaster Risk Reduction Authority Friday.
The director of the Authority, Soharanto, said that 24 people are still missing after the earthquake, which caused the slips of soil and the collapse of buildings in Sangur, West Jawa.
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6 -magnitude earthquake struck the Java Island located in Indonesia, on Monday, killing 252 people, according to the last toll, damaged buildings, and shaking some of them to the capital, Jakarta, a hundred kilometers away, officials said.
The governor of the West Jawa region announced in a previous toll of Radwan Camille in a video clip that 162 people were killed, which was confirmed by a spokesman for the local administration in the city of Sangur, West Jawa.
The earthquake also resulted in hundreds.
Outdoor patients were treated after the earthquake that residents felt in distant places such as the capital, Jakarta, and left hospitals in the town of Sangur in West Jawa without electricity for several hours.
The Disaster Management Agency in Indonesia said that 25 people are still trapped under the rubble by night.
The agency indicated that more than two thousand homes were damaged and five thousand people were transferred to evacuation centers..
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