AP
Pangandaran (Indonesia), Jul 18: Desperate villagers and soldiers dug through destroyed homes and hotels on Tuesday looking for survivors of a tsunami on Indonesia's Java island, as the death toll rose to at least 339, officials and media reports said.
Scores more were missing and at least 23,000 people had fled their homes, either because they were destroyed or in fear of another tsunami, said Dudi Junaidi, an official at an emergency coordination post in the worst-hit area of Pangandaran on Java's southern coast.
The tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, crashed into a 177-kilometre stretch of the coast on Monday without warning, sending boats, cars and motorbikes crashing into resorts and fishing villages.