"Heavy rains caused a river to overflow and several places are flooded," national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Twitter. A section of the crater collapsed after an eruption and slid into the ocean, triggering Saturday night's killer tsunami, officials have said. 'Devastation'The disaster agency has dispatched helicopters to drop supplies into a handful of hard-to-reach communities along the shattered coastlines. Hundreds of residents still stranded on tiny islands in Sunda Strait are being airlifted or taken by boat to shelters. "We're starting to access the most isolated places hit by the tsunami," said senior disaster agency official Dody Ruswandi.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 26, 2018 06:22 UTC