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Fri, 09/04/2009 - 16:17
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QUAKE VICTIMS IN CILACAP STILL LIVING IN TENTS
Cilacap, Indonesia, Sept 4 (ANTARA) - A number of Cilacap district residents whose homes were destroyed in last Wednesday's powerful earthquake were on Friday still staying in makeshift tents.
"We have been staying in this makeshift tent since Wednesday after the 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook Java and Bali," Sarwanto, a Bojongsari villager in Kedungrejo subdistrict, said here on Friday.
Sarwanto expressed hope that the government would help him rebuild his house which was flattened in the tectonic earthquake on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Sarwanto's wife, Ngadinem, said she was sad because the disaster struck when Muslims were fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.
"We are forced to break our fast and eat our sahur in this tent because we have nowhere else to go," Ngadinem said with a voice hoarse with emotion.
She said most of the victims in Cilacap district were living in trauma after their houses were devastated by the powerful tectonic earthquake on Wednesday.
"We are traumatized because our houses have been devastated by the earthquake," Ngadinem said.
The epicenter of the 7.3 earthquake on Wednesday was located 142 kilometers southwest of Tasikmalaya in West Java but houses at Patimun and Kedungreja villages in Cilacap, Central Java, were also destroyed.
Latest data indicated that 26 houses in Patimuan village were flattened, 67 were heavily damaged, and 314 others were lightly damaged while in Kedungreja village 128 houses were flattened and 273 others were lightly damaged.
As of Friday, the overall death toll of Wednesday's earthquake reached 59 while while 94 others were seriously injured, 405 slightly wounded, and some 50 others remained missing.
The powerful earthquake has also forced 5,348 people, made up of 2,848 in Cianjur District, 2000 in Tasikmalaya District, and 500 others in Ciamis to take refuge.
The powerful earthquake rocked southwest Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Wednesday at 2.55 pm local time, causing people in places as far Jakarta and Semarang (Central Java) to rush out of buildings in panic. ***
"We have been staying in this makeshift tent since Wednesday after the 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook Java and Bali," Sarwanto, a Bojongsari villager in Kedungrejo subdistrict, said here on Friday.
Sarwanto expressed hope that the government would help him rebuild his house which was flattened in the tectonic earthquake on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Sarwanto's wife, Ngadinem, said she was sad because the disaster struck when Muslims were fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.
"We are forced to break our fast and eat our sahur in this tent because we have nowhere else to go," Ngadinem said with a voice hoarse with emotion.
She said most of the victims in Cilacap district were living in trauma after their houses were devastated by the powerful tectonic earthquake on Wednesday.
"We are traumatized because our houses have been devastated by the earthquake," Ngadinem said.
The epicenter of the 7.3 earthquake on Wednesday was located 142 kilometers southwest of Tasikmalaya in West Java but houses at Patimun and Kedungreja villages in Cilacap, Central Java, were also destroyed.
Latest data indicated that 26 houses in Patimuan village were flattened, 67 were heavily damaged, and 314 others were lightly damaged while in Kedungreja village 128 houses were flattened and 273 others were lightly damaged.
As of Friday, the overall death toll of Wednesday's earthquake reached 59 while while 94 others were seriously injured, 405 slightly wounded, and some 50 others remained missing.
The powerful earthquake has also forced 5,348 people, made up of 2,848 in Cianjur District, 2000 in Tasikmalaya District, and 500 others in Ciamis to take refuge.
The powerful earthquake rocked southwest Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Wednesday at 2.55 pm local time, causing people in places as far Jakarta and Semarang (Central Java) to rush out of buildings in panic. ***
