The first balance of the Indonesian authorities is about twenty dead and 300 injured after the earthquake of magnitude 5.6 recorded in the island of Java, with its epicenter in the city of Cianjur, which also shook buildings in the capital Jakarta .
"According to preliminary information, in one hospital alone, nearly 20 people have died and at least 300 are being treated. Most of them have fractures after being trapped in the rubble of buildings," Herman Suherman, head of the municipal administration of Cianjur, a city 100 kilometers from Jakarta.
