CARITA, Indonesia — A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, officials said Sunday, voicing fears that the toll would rise further. Search and rescue teams were scouring rubble for survivors, with 222 people confirmed dead, 843 people injured and 28 missing, Nugroho said. The destructive wave left a trail of uprooted trees and debris strewn across beaches. Indonesian authorities initially claimed the wave was not a tsunami, but instead a tidal surge and urged the public not to panic. Most recently in the city of Palu on Sulawesi island a quake and tsunami in September killed thousands of people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 23, 2018 06:55 UTC