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PANDEGLANG/SERANG, Indonesia, Dec. 24-- The death toll of a deadly tsunami hitting Sunda Strait in western Indonesia has risen to 373, with 1,459 others injured, while rescue efforts have continued amid challenges from bad weather and damaged access. Hundreds of military personnel, police, rescuers and volunteers were conducting search and rescue in the affected areas along the coastlines of western Java and southern Sumatra islands, which were struck on Saturday night by the deadly tsunami following an underwater landslide from Anak Krakatau volcano that has been erupting for months. Rescuers with heavy machinery equipment have made their access to more affected areas, retrieving more victims of the catastrophe. "With hard works and supported by heavy machinery equipment, the rescuers have been able to arrive in some devastated areas which were previously difficult to reach," spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua. The search and rescue operation for victims of the tsunami was underway in the worst-hit Pandeglang and Serang districts in Banten province, and Lampung Selatan, Panawaran and Tenggamus districts in Lampung province. Indonesian authorities have managed to identify 185 bodies from overall tsunami dead counts in Banten province as of Monday. Those bodies were identified from 222 recovered in several affected areas in the province as of 16:00 p.m. Monday. | 
