Three killed as quake rocks Java and Bali

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least three people were killed as a shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands yesterday, a government official said.

The victims in East Java’s Sumenep district perished after being crushed by collapsed buildings, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. “The earthquake happened early yesterday when they were sleeping and the quake suddenly rocked so they didn’t have time to evacuate,” he said. (AFP)