JAKARTA - THE death toll from a tsunami which struck western Indonesia this week rose to 343 with another 338 still missing, a disaster official said on Thursday.
'Three hundred and forty-three people were killed and 338 are still missing,' West Sumatra disaster management official Ferry Faisal said.
The tsunami together with a volcanic eruption in Indonesia have killed more than 300 people with over 400 missing and tens of thousands displaced, authorities said on Wednesday.
One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes spewed out clouds of ash and jets of searing gas in an eruption that has killed at least 28 people and injured 14. Mount Merapi, on the outskirts of the city of Yogyakarta on Java island, first erupted on Tuesday, a day after a tsunami pounded remote islands in western Indonesia. The death toll in the tsunami was at least 282, said West Sumatra provincial disaster official Ade Edward. LINK
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