A tsunami killed at least 168 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed caused by the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano, officials and media said on Sunday. On December 26 in 2004, an Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake killed 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. Anak Krakatau is the island that emerged from the area once occupied by Krakatau, which was destroyed in 1883. Saturday's tsunami was the latest in a series of tragedies that have struck Indonesia, a vast archipelago, this year. "The water washed away the stage which was located very close to the sea," the band said in a statement.

Source: The Star December 23, 2018 07:18 UTC