47 killed after quake triggers tsunami

A two-metre-high tsunami crashed into beach resorts and fishing villages along Indonesia’s Java island today, killing at least 47 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground in terror, witnesses and officials said.

Regional agencies issued bulletins that a 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake was strong enough to send a killer waive hurtling toward Indonesia, the country worst hit by the 2004 tsunami. But the alerts did not reach the victims, because the island has no warning system.