Indonesia tsunami

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 Hundreds of people have been killed and many more injured after a devastating tsunami hit coastal towns on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait. Scientists are saying that undersea landslides from the Anak Krakatau volcano may have caused the tsunami. Marco Werman talks to BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

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