The death toll in Monday's 5.6-magnitude earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java rose to more than 250, with 151 missing, according to the country's disaster management agency.
After the earthquake, more than 20,000 homes were damaged and more than 58,000 people displaced.
Regency Sukabumi, West Java Province, at 1:21 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the agency. 268 dead and 1,083 injured, the agency said.
Around 5.2 million people live in the regencies. Most of the victims were children because the earthquake happened when children were studying in madrassas and Islamic boarding schools," West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said at a news conference on Monday night.
The governor added that most of the victims suffered fractures when the buildings collapsed.
"It was terrifying. I was very scared," said Fitri Purnamasar, a 10-year-old girl from a village in Cianjur who was taken to a local hospital after her right leg was injured by hot water during the quake.
The quake triggered a landslide that blocked the main road connecting Jakarta and West Java, and 145 aftershocks were recorded after the quake.
With more than 270 million inhabitants, Indonesia is one of the most seismically active regions in the world and is located in the Pacific. Ring of Fire, where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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