Powerful quake kills 14 on Indonesian tourist island Lombok

SEMBALUN, Indonesia (Reuters) - A effective 6.four value earthquake struck the famous traveller island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 14 humans and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid collapsing buildings.
he quake, which rocked the island early within the morning whilst many humans had been nevertheless asleep, injured 162 human beings and broken hundreds of houses.

Energy turned into reduce off inside the worst-hit vicinity, Sembalun, a sparsely populated place of rice paddies and the slopes of Mount Rinjani at the northern aspect of the island.

A 30-12 months-old Malaysian girl journeying Mount Rinjani, a famous trekking destination, became among the ones killed, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the disaster mitigation employer spokesman.

He said the location changed into temporarily closed to climbers because there were reports of landslides. masses of climbers are being evacuated from the Rinjani country wide park and 115 were thoroughly escorted out, Nugroho stated.
“The most pressing desires now are scientific personnel, stretchers, health system, youngsters wares and food,” Nugroho said.

An emergency tent become installation on a avenue in Sembalun to treat the injured because the neighborhood hospital changed into broken, and people in a important situation were taken to other hospitals.

“It came about so unexpectedly at around 6 in the morning. unexpectedly the whole thing definitely collapsed,” said Siti Sumarni, a Sembalun resident. “My baby become inside the house, fortuitously he survived.”

status outdoor a inexperienced tent set up on a dusty discipline, she said nothing was left of her residence.

Video pictures confirmed ambulances lining the streets of Lombok and many homes broken with simplest parts of brick partitions status.

“We jumped out of our beds to avoid anything falling on our heads,” said Jean-Paul Volckaert who runs a motel near Senggigi on the western side of Lombok.