The governor of the hardest-hit province and a local official said the death toll from an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday rose to 162.
“I regret to report that 162 are dead,” West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said in a video seen by AFP. Adam, the spokesman for the local government in the West Java city of Cianjur, who, like many Indonesians, goes by a name, confirmed the toll to AFP.
The Indonesian national civil protection agency BNPB still lists the toll at 62. Due to miscounts, officials offered wildly fluctuating death tolls after a disaster at an Indonesian stadium last month.