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The Indonesian authorities fear that a further hundred people may be trapped in a collapsed mine on the island of Sulawesi. Rescue workers are still busy looking for...

In the case of a mining disaster on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, according to local authorities, possibly 60 people were buried alive when an illegal gold mine collapsed. There is now a dead salvaged...

The tsunami that reached the beaches around the Strait of Sunda on Saturday night is the last of a series of disasters that hit Indonesia last year. The country got already earlier this year...

The volcano Soputan on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi erupted Sunday morning. Above the volcano an ash cloud of almost three kilometers high was created, the authorities report.

The official death toll of the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi has risen to 2010. Rescue workers in Indonesia have carried out their search for victims Tuesday, to be able to recover as many bodies as possible.

The Indonesian authorities have increased the death toll of the earthquake and the tsunami on Sulawesi to 1944. The disaster occurred in the northwest of the island and devastated a large part of the city of Palu. There a neighborhood was swallowed by the earth. Nothing is known about the fate of about five thousand residents.

The death toll as a result of the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi has risen from 1558 to 1763. According to the emergency response service there is fear that there are still more than 5000 missing persons.

The lives of many villagers in Central Sulawesi have been spared because the residents were terrified by a smaller earthquake three hours before the devastating earthquake of over a week ago.

The official death toll due to the earthquake and tsunami last Friday on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen from more than 1400 to 1558. This has been reported by the emergency response service.

On Wednesday, British Queen Elizabeth joined the long queue of Heads of State who expressed their sympathy to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo with the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.

During the earthquake and tsunami last Friday on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, 1407 people were killed. This has communicated the emergency response. The number of wounded has risen to over 2,500.

The official death toll due to the devastating tsunami in the Indonesian Sulawesi region rose to 1234. The death toll stood at 844. The authorities report this. The fear is high that the number of victims will increase considerably.

While in the disaster area of ​​Sulawesi the number of victims is increasing by the hour, there is criticism of the warning system for tsunamis of the Indonesian government. That did not work well when last Friday a heavy earthquake unleashed a devastating tidal wave.

The Netherlands has made € 1 million available to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This is what Minister Kaag (Development Cooperation) decided on Monday.

The Indonesian authorities supply relief goods and materiel after the earthquake and flood on Sulawesi. The emergency response service says it needs more heavy equipment and manpower to store bodies on the island.

Two days after the tsunami disaster on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, rescue workers rescued a woman from a collapsed hotel in the city of Palu. The woman was taken off the second floor of the hotel Roa Roa on Sunday, according to rescue workers.

The number of deaths as a result of an earthquake and a tidal wave in the northwest of Sulawesi rose to 1203. This is reported by the Indonesian news site Kumparan, which refers to the national police. The Indonesian authorities have not yet confirmed the number.

Air traffic controller Anthonius Gunawan Agung has been able to take off a plane full of people from Sulawesi, but has had to pay the highest price for it.

Detainees in a prison on Sulawesi have caused destruction and fire in the establishment when they were not allowed to search for family.

The number of people killed in an earthquake and a tidal wave in the northwest of Sulawesi has risen to more than eight hundred.

The number of victims of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit the northwest of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to more than four hundred.

The Red Cross opens giro 6868 for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Hundreds of residents have died as a result, but the exact extent of the disaster is still unclear.

Update- The authorities of Indonesia confirm that a tsunami has hit the country. Several cities have been hit, including Palu and Donggala. Videos of the event circulate on social media. According to travel organizations, the affected area is hardly popular among Dutch people, although it is not clear whether there are compatriots in the disaster area.

The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been hit by two powerful earthquakes. Certainly one person was killed and at least ten other people were injured. 'We expect more damage and more victims,' ​​stressed a spokesman for the emergency response service.

A 19-year-old boy survived 49 days on a loose raft at sea that drove thousands of kilometers.

A bizarre fish species that is older than the dinosaurs threatens to die out.

The death toll due to the shipping accident in Indonesia has risen to 31. Some 130 passengers on the inoperative ferry have been rescued, says an official from the Ministry of Transport. Three people are still missing.

The body of a 54-year-old woman was found in an eight-meter long Python. Her children found the snake, with a huge bump in his stomach, near their village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Residents of a remote village in the west of Sulawesi on Monday made a gruesome discovery. A 25-year-old villager who had been missing since Sunday, was found to be eaten by a python seven meters long.