Quake shakes Indonesia's Java, at least 5 dead

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong undersea earthquake struck off Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, triggering a tsunami that Indonesia's president said killed at least five people.

The search for victims was continuing, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a news conference.

"An earthquake has happened and then was followed by a tsunami on the southern coast of Ciamis (regency)," he said.

"It has been reported to me that five people have been declared dead and the search is still going on to find those who probably have been swept away by the tsunami waves."

A woman who said she was a witness told Jakarta-based Radio Elshinta that waves had come several hundred meters inland at Pangandaran Beach around 270 kilometers (168 miles) southeast of Jakarta, and she had seen three bodies.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had said the quake, which hit at 0819 GMT, was of 7.2 magnitude.
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Mother nature...........