According to the Financial Times, Indonesia's government official said that the costly early warning system established after the 2004 tsunami failed to alert authorities to the danger of tidal waves that killed 282 people this week because the detection sensors had been vandalised. Although UNESCO's Indonesian programme for disaster risk reduction official added, "Even if there had been a warning, it would have been too late (...) People shouldn’t wait for official warning."
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