Several members of the Indonesian pop band Seventeen were buried on Monday, after the Sunda Strait tsunami slammed into their concert on Saturday.
Lead singer Riefian Fajarsyah said on Instagram that bassist Bani, guitarist Herman, road manager Oki and crew member Ujang were all laid to rest.
"Bani was buried at 1pm in Gamping, Herman was buried today at Tidore, Oki was buried at 4pm in Krapyak [and] Ujang was buried this afternoon in Ciledug," he said.
Other members of the band, including Fajarsyah's wife, still remain missing.
Earlier Fajarsyah posted photos of him and his wife kissing in Paris, saying "today is your birthday, I want to say directly, hurry home, dear".
Dramatic video posted online showed the tsunami smashing into Seventeen's open-air concert, hurling members of the band from the stage.
The band were playing Saturday night to a large crowd in a marquee at the Tanjung Lesung Beach Resort on the western tip of Java when the wall of water hit.
On the video, fans can be seen clapping and cheering before a wave rips under the stage, sending the band members and their equipment crashing into the men and women dancing at the front.
The shocking video then suddenly stops.
Seventeen crew member Zack described his struggle in the water, saying he turned to prayer.
“Underwater I could only pray ‘Jesus Christ help!’,” he said in an Instagram post.
“In the final seconds I almost ran out of breath,” he added, revealing he survived by clinging to part of the collapsed stage.
Death toll rises
Indonesian rescuers raced to find survivors Monday with experts warning the devastated region could be slammed by more deadly waves.
Rescue teams used their bare hands, diggers and other heavy equipment to haul debris from the stricken area around the Sunda Strait, as thousands were evacuated to higher ground.
The powerful tsunami struck without any warning on Saturday night, sweeping over popular beaches of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java and inundating tourist hotels and coastal settlements.
Tsunami damage in Indonesia. Source: Getty
More than 1,000 people were injured and the death toll "will continue to rise", said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by the wave that left a tangled mess of corrugated steel roofing, timber and rubble at Carita beach, a popular spot for day-trippers on the west coast of Java.
"The military and police are searching the ruins to see if we can find more victims," said Dody Ruswandi, a senior official at the disaster agency, adding that the rescue effort was likely to last a week.
Additional reporting: AFP
