Ten Vietnamese students were taken unscathed to Jakarta on October 1. (Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – Ten Vietnamese students studying in CentralSulawesi, which was hard-hit by deadly earthquakes and tsunami, left Jakartafor Vietnam on October 6.
Earlier, they were taken unscathed to Jakarta on October 1 thanks to jointefforts by the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia and local competent authorities.The students had been in their dormitory when the powerful earthquakes rumbledSulawesi island. Luckily, they had a hairbreadth escape before the buildingcollapsed.
Before leaving Jakarta, the students came to the embassy to pay respect toformer General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) CentralCommittee Do Muoi.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang said that the embassy willwork with Tadulako University and local authorities to seek measures to ensurethat the Vietnamese students can resume their study as soon as possible.
Central Sulawesi was ravaged by two devastating quakes measuring 6.1 and 7.5 onthe Richter scale. The second was followed by giant tsunami waves on theafternoon of the same day, destroying thousands of houses and roads. Indonesiaon October 5 announced the death toll from the disaster had swollen to 1,558.
The United Nations said that nearly 200,000 Indonesians, including tens ofthousands of children, are in need of urgent aid.
Indonesia is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamisbecause of its location on the "Ring of Fire", an arc of volcanoesand fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
A series of earthquakes in July and August killed nearly 500 people on theholiday island of Lombok, hundreds of kilometres southwest of Sulawesi.
In December 2004, a massive 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the northernIndonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Oceancountries, killing 220,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 168,000in Indonesia. –VNA
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Ten Vietnamese students were taken unscathed to Jakarta on October 1. (Photo: VNA) 
