Jakarta, Indonesia • Disaster teams in Indonesia reported at least 222 deaths Sunday after a tsunami slammed ashore near an erupting volcano, sweeping over fishing ports and hundreds of people at a holiday beach concert without warning.
Authorities warned the death toll could rise as they widened searches and treated nearly 850 people injured by the three-foot surge of water from the Sunda Strait, off the western tip of Java island about 60 miles from Jakarta.
The strait is the shadow of the rumbling Krakatoa volcano, which has been erupting since June. Indonesian seismologists initially speculated that a landslide — possibly undersea — may have generated the tsunami late Saturday.