CIANJUR - At least 46 people have been killed and 700 injured in an earthquake that rattled Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, a local official from the town worst hit by the tremor told local media.
"The latest data, 46 people were killed. Victims kept coming from many areas. Around 700 people were injured," Herman Suherman, the head of the administration in Cianjur town in West Java, told broadcaster Kompas TV.
The shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's main island Java, with buildings damaged and a landslide triggered.
The quake was centred in the Cianjur region of West Java, according to the United States Geological Survey, and was felt as far away as the capital of Jakarta, where panicked residents ran into the streets.
The local administration chief in the town worst hit by the tremor said most of the deaths were counted in one hospital alone, without providing a specific figure, with many others in surrounding villages still to be evacuated.
"The information I got for now, in this hospital alone, nearly 20 died and at least 300 people are being treated," Herman Suherman told broadcaster Metro TV.
"Most of them had fractures from being trapped by the ruins of buildings."
Shops, a hospital and an Islamic boarding school in the town were severely damaged by the quake, according to local media.
Broadcasters showed several buildings in Cianjur with their roofs collapsed and debris lining the streets.
Suherman said relatives of victims had congregated at the town's Sayang hospital and warned the death toll could rise as villagers outside of the town may still be trapped.
"We are currently handling people who are in an emergency state in this hospital. The ambulances keep on coming from the villages to the hospital," he said.
"There are many families in villages that have not been evacuated."
The country's disaster chief Suharyanto, who also goes by one name, said at least 14 people had died in the Cianjur area but said information was "still developing".
Cianjur police chief Doni Hermawan told Metro TV authorities had rescued a woman and a baby from a landslide but a third person they found had died of their injuries.