Singer of Indonesian pop group Seventeen buries wife, bandmates killed in tsunami


The lead vocalist of popular Indonesian pop group Seventeen, Riefian Fajarsyah, and his late wife Dylan Sahara, who lost her life when a tsunami tore into the band's open-air concert on Saturday (Dec 22).PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/ @IFANSEVENTEEN.

JAKARTA (AFP): The front man of popular Indonesian pop group Seventeen was to bury his wife Tuesday, compounding a tragedy that saw his three bandmates also killed when a tsunami tore into their open-air concert.

Dramatic footage posted online showed fans clapping and cheering before the wave smashes into the concert, hurling band members from the stage and slamming into the audience.

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