Indonesia quake death toll rises to 310: disaster agency

Nov 25, 2022 09:50 PM

CIANJUR, Indonesia -- The death toll from an earthquake that shook Indonesia's main island of Java this week has risen to 310, the country's national disaster mitigation agency said Friday.

Wounded survivors of an earthquake are being treated in the yard of a hospital in Cianjur on November 21, 2022. At least 56 people were killed in an earthquake that rattled Indonesia's main island of Java on November 21, 2022, the governor of the worst-hit province said. TIMUR MATAHARI / AFP

The agency's chief Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said 24 people remain missing after the quake caused landslides and building collapses in the West Java town of Cianjur.