JAKARTA - More than 3,000 people were killed and thousands more injured when a strong earthquake rocked Indonesia`s densely-populated island of Java on Saturday, the social affairs ministry said.
At least 3,002 people were killed, more than 2,500 people were seriously injured and at least 3,824 houses were destroyed, said an official at the ministry`s disaster relief center in Jakarta.
The Red Cross estimated that some 200,000 people had been displaced by the 6.2-magnitude quake, which struck near the densely-populated ancient city of Yogyakarta.
05/27/2006 15:09 GMT