1,200 tourists being evacuated from Indonesia quake islands – disaster agency

MATARAM, Indonesia: More than one thousand tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia’s tiny Gili islands on Monday after a powerful quake struck neighboring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds. The Gilis are three coral-fringed tropical islands popular with backpackers and divers, a few kilometers off the northwest coast of the larger Lombok island. Footage […]

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