Over 700 residents have been evacuated, or rescued mainly from the area of the seaside village of Mati,[3] where rescuers found 26 corpses trapped just metres away from the sea, apparently hugging each other as they died.[4] Boats also recovered corpses from the water, and rescued hundreds of people from beaches and the sea.[3] Ten people drowned when the boat rescuing them from a hotel in Mati capsized.[5]