Tsunami alert had failed, say officials
5:30 AM Friday Oct 29, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink MENTAWAI ISLANDS – A warning system installed after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 had broken because of a lack of maintenance when Indonesia’s double disasters struck this week. The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 300 yesterday as more victims were found. Hundreds were still missing after Monday’s tsunami struck the remote Mentawai islands off western Sumatra, where officials were only beginning to chart the scope of the devastation. At least 311 people died as a huge 3m wave, triggered by an undersea earthquake, washed away wooden and bamboo homes, displacing more than 20,000 people. About 1300km to the…
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Tsunami alert had failed, say officials
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