A strong, shallow earthquake Monday toppled buildings and collapsed walls on Indonesia’s densely populated main island of Java, killing at least 62 people and injuring hundreds as residents rushed into the streets, some covered in blood and debris.
Emergency workers treated the injured on stretchers outside main hospitals, on terraces and in parking lots. Many included children, some of whom were given oxygen masks and IV lines and were being resuscitated.
“I fainted. It was very strong," Hasan, a construction worker being treated at the Cianjur Regional Hospital, said of the temblor. “I saw my friends running to escape from the building. But I was too late to get out and was hit by the wall.”
Residents, some crying with children in their arms, fled damaged homes after the magnitude 5.6 quake shook the Cianjur region in West Java province in the late afternoon, at a depth of 6.2 miles. It also caused panic in the greater Jakarta area, where high-rises swayed and some were evacuated .
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