Indonesia, Passenger Ferry Fire Kills
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Indonesia's coast guard attended to a ship that caught fire off the coast of Sulawesi on Sunday (July 20), video from rescuers showed.
Sumatra reported 1,292 hotspots on Monday (Jul 21), a jump from 94 on Jul 12, causing haze to hit several western states on Peninsular Malaysia.
Haze from forest and peatland fires in some parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra island was detected in Malaysia on Sunday, officials said. Forest and peat fires are an annual problem in Indonesia that strain relations with neighboring countries.
There are no reports of casualties or injuries into the incident yet. However, rescue operations are underway. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, the Navy, the Coast Guard and even local fishermen are all helping to evacuate the passengers safely.
A MASSIVE inferno has erupted on a packed ferry forcing passengers to jump overboard – with dozens feared trapped. Flames engulfed the KM Barcelona VA vessel on Sunday, forcing many of the
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on November 21 killed at least 331 people and injured nearly 600 in West Java’s Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 people.