In Yogyakarta Province alone, Indonesia, the death toll of the May 27 earthquake reached 4,039 people, according to the latest data issued by the local authority here on Friday. The death toll consisted of 3,561 people of Bantul, 215 of Sleman, 163 Yogyakarta municipality, 21 Kulonprogo, and 76 Gunungkidul. The total of injured people was 15,181 people, mostly from Bantul (6,445 people seriously injured, and 3,141 slightly wounded), Sleman (696 serious and 3.088 slightly), Yogyakarta municipality (316), Kulonprogo (436), and Gunungkidul (1,059). The quake devastated some 132,279 houses in the province. Meanwhile, a government data showed that the deadly quake killed a total of 6,200 people, injured at least 30,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless or displaced in Yogyakarta Province and few villages in Central Java Province. Among the worst earthquakes hitting the country were respectively the 8.9 Richter Scale quake hitting Aceh in December 2004 which killed over 168.000 people, and the recent 5.9 Richter scale quake hitting Yogyakarta and Central Java last Saturday, May 27.
