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Indonesian rescuers used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java, which was hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people.
The authorities have warned that more victims will be found as and when research.
Large clouds of ash continued to be expelled from Anak Krakatau, a volcanic island where the crater collapsed at high tide on Saturday, sending waves that swept the areas coastal on both sides. of the Sunda Strait, between the islands of Sumatra and Java.
At least 154 people are still missing. More than 1,400 people were injured and thousands of residents had to move to higher areas with a high tide warning postponed to Wednesday.
Rescuers used heavy machinery, sniffer dogs and special cameras to detect bodies in mud and wrecks along 100 km of the west coast of Java. Authorities said the excavations would be extended to the south.
"We believe that several places have not been affected," said Yusuf Latif, spokesman for the government agency for search and rescue.
"But we are now moving to more remote areas … and there are indeed a lot of victims in this region," he added.
The vast archipelago, located in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, has had its worst annual number of deaths caused by disasters for more than a decade.
(From Fergus Jensen, additional report by Wilda Asmarini, Nilufar Rizki and Fanny Potkin in Jakarta)
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