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Tsunami Hits Indonesia: Band Members Killed Onstage
| washing away the stage and many people along with it.
The 1883 eruption of nearby Krakatoa killed more than 30,000 people. Anak Krakatau, the "son of Krakatoa," emerged from the spot where the island of Rakata existed before that eruption.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which was triggered by an earthquake, killed about 226,000.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/23/679599695/more-than-200-dead-hundreds-more-injured-after-tsunami-hits-indonesia
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| At least 222 people are dead and hundreds more are missing or injured, the AP reports, after a tsunami struck Indonesia late Saturday night local time.
The death toll is expected to rise.
Officials there are blaming the tsunami on underwater landslides caused by volcanic activity on the island of Anak Krakatau, which erupted just after 9 p.m.
Footage shared by news outlets and social media show a wave hitting a seaside concert at a resort on the island of Java,