Strong Wind Damage Hundreds Houses

Bogor (Antara Bali) - Heavy rain  and strong wind have brought about worse  scene of destruction to the district of Bogor of West Java after Sunday's quake that caused hundreds of houses collapsed in the area, some 60 kilometers south of Jakarta.

Strong winds, followed by downpour  slammed across the district on Monday leaving hundreds more of houses damaged.

Many  people were already left homeless following Sunday's quake 4.8 on the Richter scale that cause more than 450 houses collapsed or damaged in the district.

On Monday,  365 more houses were damaged including 65 almost totally ruined in the district by the stormy  rain.

"The hardest hit was the Sukamakmur  and Sukaharja villages in  the Ciomas sub-district," a spokesman of the Bogor district administration Erwin Suriana  said here on Tuesday.(IGT)