Over 800 injured, 15,000 forced to flee home, at least 42 dead in Indonesia's latest tragedy

Injured people lay on hospital beds outside an Emergency Room following an earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on January 15, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. - Reuters

JAKARTA, Jan. 16 (Xinhua): More than 800 people were wounded and about 15,000 others took shelters as a 6.2-magnitude quake, which hit Indonesia's West Sulawesi province on Friday, massively destroyed houses and infrastructures, a disaster official said here on Saturday.

Those with serious injuries have been treated in hospitals and field hospitals set up after the shallow under-land quake struck Mamuju city and Majene district, the National Disaster Management Agency's Spokesman Raditya Jati said.