Indonesia earthquake toll mounts to 162, says governor: Report

“I regret to inform that 162 are dead,” West Java governor Ridwan Kamil said in a video seen by AFP. Adam, the spokesman for the local administration in Cianjur town in West Java, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, confirmed the toll to AFP.

The shallow tremor, with a magnitude of 5.6, brought down the roofs and walls of homes built on the town’s hilly landscape.

Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency, BNPB, still lists the toll at 62. Due to miscounting, officials offered wildly fluctuating death tolls after an Indonesian stadium disaster last month.

The Indonesian teen shared a video in which his 56-year-old mother screams, “Lord have mercy! My house!” as their home shook. “I pulled my mother’s hand and we ran outside,” he said. “I heard people screaming for help from all around me.”

Parts of the walls and roof fell to the floor, along with cupboards and other debris that hit his legs and hands. “I couldn’t see anything. The dust from the debris blocked my sight for a while,” Azhari told AFP. He said he had never experienced an earthquake like it before.