JAKARTA: A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Papua yesterday, killing at least 23 people in a coastal town and possibly more in other areas, officials said.
Many people were injured in the early morning quake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and destroyed several buildings in Nabire, the officials said.
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