LAMBUK: At least 91 people are now known to have died after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok.
Hundreds of people have been wounded by Sunday’s quake, officials say, mostly in the north of the island.
The magnitude seven tremor was shallow, occurring only 10km (6.21 miles) underground. It damaged thousands of buildings and triggered power cuts.
On the neighbouring island of Bali, video footage showed people running from their homes screaming.
There have been more than 130 aftershocks since the quake hit on Sunday morning.
A tsunami warning was issued but was lifted after a few hours.
It comes a week after another quake hit Lombok, popular with tourists who visit its beaches and hiking trails. That quake killed at least 16 people.
Lombok is a roughly 4,500 sq km (1,700 sq miles) island west of the slightly larger island of Bali.
The two islands are home to about three and four million people respectively, but each year are visited by millions of tourists from around the globe.
A spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency told the AFP news agency that many buildings had been affected in Lombok’s main city of Mataram. Most of them had been built with weak construction materials.
Mataram residents described a powerful jolt that sent people fleeing into the streets. “Everyone immediately ran out of their homes, everyone is panicking,” one resident named as Iman said.
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