Indonesia: at least 306 people killed during tsunami

Indonesia: at least 306 people killed during tsunami

Bodies covered in white sheets piled up at makeshift morgues,  with the corpse of at least one woman lying on a beach long popular with local and foreign tourists.

The area hit by Monday's disaster was spared by the devastating 2004 Asian tsunami, and many residents said they did not even feel the 7.7-magnitude undersea quake that unleashed the two-meter (two-yard) -high wall of water.

The death toll rose to at least 306 Tuesday after Lina, a district official who goes by only one name, said 44 bodies were found in Tasikmalaya, according to the AP.

At least 172 people were killed in Panganderan area, 77 people in nearby Cilacap district, and 13 in other areas, local officials said.