JAKARTA: At least 16 people were killed and 100 injured, many seriously, yesterday after a succession of earthquakes measuring at least 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked an island in eastern Indonesia, police said.
The first quake, which was felt in nearby Timor Leste, damaged hundreds of buildings in Alor island, 1,000km east of the resort isle of Bali, and left hospitals struggling to cope with the wounded.
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