The governor of the worst-hit province and a neighborhood official mentioned the demise toll from an earthquake on Indonesia’s predominant island of Java on Monday had jumped to 162.

“I remorse to tell that 162 are useless,” West Java governor Ridwan Kamil mentioned in a video seen by AFP. Adam, the spokesman for the native administration in Cianjur city in West Java, who like many Indonesians goes by one identify, confirmed the toll to AFP.

Indonesia’s nationwide catastrophe mitigation company, BNPB, nonetheless lists the toll at 62. Attributable to miscounting, officers supplied wildly fluctuating demise tolls after an Indonesian stadium catastrophe final month.

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