Death toll from Indonesia's volcano-triggered tsunami tops 280
by Simon Roughneen and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Dec 24, 2018
3 minutes
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The sea rose up without warning Saturday night, crashing into coastal villages on two of Indonesia's most populous islands. It killed at least 281 people, washing away buildings, roads and a rock concert on the beach, officials said early Monday.
The tsunami that struck the western tip of Java and the southern tip of Sumatra was believed to have been triggered by an underwater landslide from the flank of an erupting
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