Index World Press Photo
February 2008 | Edition Nine     




A nurse tends to a victim in Bantul, Yogyakarta Province, Central Java, where a powerful earthquake flattened buildings and villages, killing at least 4,300 people and injuring around 20,000. In the country's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami, the quake - measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale - struck early morning on June 1 2006 in the heart of the densely-populated Java island and triggered fears that the nearby rumbling Mount Merapi volcano would erupt. Around 30,000 people were made homeless by the quake.
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