July 17th Tsunami kills at least 339

[DarkMan]

PANGANDARAN, Indonesia - Tearful parents searched for missing children Tuesday, and soldiers pulled corpses from the debris of homes flattened by the second tsunami to hit Indonesia in as many years. At least 339 people were killed, officials said, with more than 600 injured.

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Bodies covered in white sheets piled up at makeshift morgues, with several others lying beneath the blazing sun on a popular tourist beach, a 6-month-old baby among them.

"I don't mind losing any of my property, but please God return my son," said Basril, a villager who goes by one name, as he and his wife searched though mounds of rubble at the once idyllic Pangandaran resort on Java island's southern coast.

The area hit by Monday's wave had been spared by the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami, and many residents said they did not even feel the 7.7-magnitude undersea quake that unleashed the 6-foot-high wall of water.

But some recognized the danger when they saw the ocean recede and fled to higher ground, screaming " Tsunami! Tsunami!" A black wave shot to shore a half hour later, witnesses said, sending boats, cars and motorbikes crashing into resorts and fishing villages. The water reached 300 yards inland.

The death toll rose to at least 339, Health Ministry official Nurvila Dewi said, with another 136 missing and 601 injured.

"We are still finding many bodies, many are stuck in the ruins of the houses," local police chief Syamsuddin Janieb said as soldiers nearby pulled the body of a toddler from the mud and washed it for burial.

Most of those killed were Indonesians, but a Pakistani and Swede were among the dead, Janieb and consulate officials said. The Dutch Foreign Ministry denied reports that three of its citizens were killed.

At least 54,000 people fled their homes, either because they were destroyed or in fear of another tsunami, adding to difficulties to add up causality figures, other officials said Tuesday.

At the main regional emergency center, the Banjar Public Hospital, doctors and nurses scrambled to treat a steady stream of patients

[katastrophe]

that is horrible news why does nature have to be so cruel?

[Hunneh_Buns]

I didn't read this. But the news says not many people knew about it cause they don't have that warning system thing.

[yoshi]

another one?!.. damn, that's fucked up..


i'm really thankful for where i live.. no earthquakes, no tsunami, no hurricanes.. it must be really hard to live in such place..

[D@vid]

why didnt i see this on the news. does nobody care about other people any more?

[Evil_Deedz666]

Guttered!!!!!!

[Shadyluva]

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[katastrophe]

THiiS iiS GLOBAL WARMiiN...ii WAS WATCHiiN SUMTHiiN ON DiiSCOVERY AND THEY WERE LiiKE THAT iiN PROBABLY A FEW DECADES WE MAY HAVE ANOTHER iiCE AGE

another ice age? its called global WARMING for a reason. correct me if im wrong but isnt ice melting and not forming? i dont think it will get colder but it will get WAY hotter

[Shadyluva]

THiiS iiS GLOBAL WARMiiN...ii WAS WATCHiiN SUMTHiiN ON DiiSCOVERY AND THEY WERE LiiKE THAT iiN PROBABLY A FEW DECADES WE MAY HAVE ANOTHER iiCE AGE

another ice age? its called global WARMING for a reason. correct me if im wrong but isnt ice melting and not forming? i dont think it will get colder but it will get WAY hotter

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[katastrophe]

^^^o ok. well i think they are wrong but i could be wrong too

[Chino562]

another 1??