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The
band was revving up the crowd at the private, beachside concert, the
lead singer punctuating musical notes with pumping fists – "We. Are.
Seventeen!" – unaware of the approaching danger.
As he walked across the stage on Saturday night, a tsunami wave hit the shore of Tanjung Lesung beach on the western tip of Java, knocking the stage out from under the band and bringing the concert to a sudden and tragic end.
In
a video recorded by someone standing several yards away, the stage,
with the band members on it, briefly floats as the water hits and then
is washed away. Band members disappear underwater. People in the
audience scream as they try to flee the approaching sea water and music
equipment. Then the video abruptly ends.
According to Reuters,
four people connected to the band were killed: bassist M. Awal "Bani"
Purbani, road manager Oki Wijaya, guitarist Herman Sikumbang and crew
member Ujang.
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The band's drummer was still missing, as well as the lead singer's wife.
Jakarta
pop band Seventeen are seen performing on stage at a resort in Tanjung
Lesung moments before before the wave strikes and sweeps them into the
audience.One crew member, identified by
Channel News Asia only by the first name Zack, said he survived by
holding on to part of the collapsed stage.
"Underwater, I could only pray 'Jesus Christ, help!'," Zack said of his struggle in the water.
"In the final seconds, I almost ran out of breath."
The
private concert by Seventeen was part of an end-of-year celebration for
Perusahaan Listrik Negara, the country's electricity utility, according
to Channel News Asia. Twenty-nine people who attended were killed by
the tsunami waves.
On
Sunday, Seventeen's lead singer, Riefan Fajarsyah, posted a tearful
video on Instagram, apparently still wearing the shirt in which he had
performed the night before.
"Andi,
Herman and Ujang have not been found, please pray for them," he said as
he wiped away tears. "Please pray also that my wife will be found soon.
Please pray also for Bani and Oki (who passed away)."
The
washed-away concert was just one of the dramatic stories that emerged
after tsunami waves struck Indonesia's Sunda Strait without warning,
killing at least 222.
By Sunday night, Indonesian government officials said more than 843 people were injured and 28 were missing.
Indonesian
officials postulated that a volcanic eruption caused undersea
landslides that generated the massive waves, Stanley Widianto reported
for The Washington Post.
People inspect the damage at a tsunami-ravaged neighbourhood in Carita.Credit:APIndonesia
straddles the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where many of the world's
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur because of collisions between
tectonic plates.
In December 2004, a tsunami triggered by a
9.3-magnitude undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed
168,000 in Indonesia.
But
Saturday's volcanic event did not create the tremors that typically put
coastal residents on tsunami watch, and the government never issued a
warning.
That is why Seventeen found itself performing for 200 people Saturday night instead of heading to higher ground.
Indonesian rescuers search for the bodies of tsunami victims in Carita, Indonesia.Credit:APThe Jakarta-based rock band was two songs into their set when the wave struck.
One
moment, Fajarsyah was singing on a brightly lighted stage; the next
moment, the tsunami wave had swept him out to sea, he told an Indonesian
news station.
It
was difficult to see in the dark, Fajarsyah told the TV station, but he
could hear cries around him and make out flailing hands as people tried
to stay above water. As the noises around him faded, he said, he
thought that the concertgoers around him had drowned and that he may be
next.
"I didn't think I could make (it) to the beach line," Fajarsyah said. "I feel I am really in the sea and about to die."
He
tried fruitlessly to swim against the rushing water, but salvation came
in the form of a floating box. He latched on to it and used it to swim
to a tree. Half an hour later, with the water receding, he climbed down
from the tree, covered in scratches. He had one singular thought: "I
have to find my band family as well as my wife."
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