Indonesia quake toll reaches 42

JAKARTA, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 42 people have been killed, 40 others have gone missing and more than 400 others were wounded after a 7.3 magnitude quake hit West Java of Indonesia on Wednesday, The National Disaster Management Agency said here.

Residents take shelter outside their damaged houses in the West Java town of Sukabumi on Sept. 2, 2009. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit West Java on Wednesday, leaving some 42 people killed, more than 400 wounded and some 40 still missing. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)

"The death toll now climbs to 42," an official of the disaster management agency Iwan Setiawan told Xinhua.

Head of the crisis center of the Health Ministry Rustam Pakaya told Xinhua that the number of people wounded was 422, some of them suffering from serious injury.

Forty others people were still buried by landslide in Cianjur of West Java, Pakaya said.

Over 3,000 houses seriously were damaged and nearly 1,000 other suffered from minor damages in West Java and Central Java, another official of the disaster management agency Panji Syahrial told Xinhua.

"In Cianjur of West a Java 12 houses have been buried by landslide and evacuation is underway now," he said.