(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Powerful earthquakes jolted the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday and a triggered a tsunami that an official said swept away houses.

Indonesia had declared a tsunami warning after the strongest quake, which registered magnitude 7.5, but lifted it about half an hour later. It was followed by numerous strong aftershocks including one of magnitude 6.7.

Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a live TV interview that the tsunami hit Palu, which is the capital of central Sulawesi province, and a smaller city, Donggala.

He said houses were swept away and families were reported missing. Communications to the area are disrupted.

“The cut to telecommunications and darkness are hampering efforts to obtain information,” he said. “All national potential will be deployed, and tomorrow morning we will deploy Hercules and helicopters to provide assistance in tsunami-affected areas.”

Indonesian TV showed a smartphone video of a powerful wave hitting Pal..

(COPENHAGEN, Denmark) — A police manhunt on Friday prompted Danish authorities to briefly cut off the eastern island of Zealand, where the capital of Copenhagen sits, from the rest of the country as well as from Germany and Sweden.

A black Swedish-registered car with “possibly three people onboard” was being sought in connection with “serious criminality,” the Copenhagen police said.

Sweden’s Aftonbladet paper, citing an unnamed police source, said the case was likely connected to a kidnapping.

Bridges from Zealand to the central island of Funen and to neighboring Sweden were closed down for about two hours, and ferry crossings to Germany and to Sweden were also halted. Shutting down these key crossings caused major traffic jams near the bridges to Sweden and the mainland.

On Twitter, Copenhagen police later said all bridges and ferry crossings were reopened.

Television footage showed heavily armed police officers screening cars as they drove through roadblocks at the Oresund brid..

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Friday called on Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to pardon two journalists who were sentenced to seven years in prison this month after reporting on the killing of Rohingya Muslims in the country, warning that “history will judge her on her response.”

Clooney is representing Reuters reporters Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28 — whose arrest in December 2017 was widely viewed as retribution for their reporting on the killing of 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. They were found guilty on Sept. 3 of possessing state secrets — the conclusion of what Clooney described as a “sham trial.”

Suu Kyi, who once represented the country’s promising progression toward democracy, has faced international scrutiny for failing to stop or condemn the violence against Rohingya Muslims. Earlier this month, she denied that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were jailed because they were journalists and said anyone who disagrees should “point out why the judgment was wron..