Indonesians pray outdoors after deadly quake destroys town

Muslim men pray during Friday prayers at a volleyball field, as their nearest mosque was damaged following Monday's earthquake, in Cianjur, West Java province, Indonesia, November 25, 2022. REUTERS/Stefanno Sulaiman

CIANJUR, Indonesia (Reuters) -Hundreds of Indonesians prayed out in the open next to rice paddies and in the streets on Friday, as the death toll from an earthquake that flattened their town in western Java rose to 310.

Muslim cleric Muhamad Jamhur led a congregation in prayer in an outdoor volleyball court just 200 metres (0.1 miles) from a mosque whose walls were left cracked and windows shattered by the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake that hit the town of Cianjur, about 75 km south of the capital Jakarta, earlier this week.