Three killed in central Indonesia quake

Shaky ground: A man standing near a collapsed home in Kertosari village, Banjarnegara in Central Java. (Inset) Security personnel and rescue workers pulling down the remains of a building in the village. — Reuters

JAKARTA: A shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes, disaster officials said as they declared a two-week emergency for the affected areas.

Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency yesterday said the 4.4-magnitude quake that occurred on Wednesday at a depth of 4km was centred 52km north of Kebu­men, a densely populated district of Central Java province.