The death toll from the powerful quake in West Java on Wednesday reached 70 on Saturday, ANTARA reported. An official from the coordinating unit of the West Java Disaster Mitigation Service, Rano Harjaya, said "until 12.00 hours today the number of deaths already reaches 70 while 966 have been wounded and 32 still missing." He said most of the dead, wounded and missing victims were found in Pamoyanan in the subdistrict of Cibinong in Cianjur, West Java. He said more than 5,000 houses had been damaged because of the magnitude 7.3 quake. The head of the health service in the Bandung district, Ahmad Kustijadi, meanwhile said that 14 people had been found dead in the district after the quake. "Until noon the number of the deaths still remained at 14. Twelve of them died because of the quake while two others because of other relating factors," he said. He said ten of the dead victims were found in Pangalengan while the others in Kertasari (1), Cimaung (1) and Banjaran (2). He said thousands of people in the district meanwhile had suffered injuries because of the quake that had destroyed more than 10,000 houses and structures. Twenty-two people from Pangalengan who had been wounded because of the quake are now still being treated at the Al Ihsan hospital in the Bandung district. "Twenty of them are old patients while two others are new," a hospital official, Yani Maryani, said. She said they generally suffered serious fractured bones and therefore needed in-patient treatment. She said they had no longer been put in corridors but had been moved to wards. "The situation now is better than it was immediately after the quake. Surgery patients have been accommodated at surgery-patient rooms," she said. The hospital has so far recorded 114 quake-related patients being admitted at its emergency ward and some of them being further treated there.
