“As of this evening, 61 deaths have been recorded and the search for 90 people is still ongoing,” Ilham Wahab, spokeswoman for the West Sumatra Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on Friday evening, updating the province’s previous death toll of 23 people.
In North Sumatra, another 116 people died, while the death toll in Aceh province reached at least 35 people, according to data issued by the agency.