REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Five reported dead, one in critical condition, and other six wounded over the Aceh quake, according to the data in National Disaster Management (BNPB). “Five people are dead due to heart attack when the quake struck,” the spokesman of BNPB, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Thursday.

Among the dead are Yatim Kulam (70 years) from Banda Aceh, Fauziyah (60 years) and M Yusuf (70 years) from Aceh Besar, and Hatijah Hamid (70 years) from West Aceh. One of the dead has not yet identified.

Meanwhile, an unidentified child is in critical condition because he was struck down by a tree in Aceh Singkil. “Six people are wounded. Four are in Simeulue and two in Aceh Singkil,” he said. 

The power of the quakes triggered a tsunami watch in countries all along the Indian Ocean, from Australia and Pakistan all the way to Africa.

Recalling the 2004 disaster that killed 230,000 people in nearly a dozen nations, sirens sounded along coastlines and warnings spread like wildfire by mobile phone text messaging.

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