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Race to save Sumatra quake buried

Source: BBC
Padang : Indonesia | about 1 month ago  
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  • Medical staff attend to a casualty following a powerful earthquake near the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Medical staff attend to a casualty following a powerful earthquake ...
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  • People stand near a collapsed shopping mall after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    People stand near a collapsed shopping mall after an earthquake hit ...
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  • Residents wait outside damaged houses after an earthquake in Padang, Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Residents wait outside damaged houses after an earthquake in Padang, ...
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  • A man stands in front of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A man stands in front of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit ...
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  • Students run near a collapsed university building after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Students run near a collapsed university building after an earthquake ...
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  • People clear rubble with their hands following a powerful earthquake near the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    People clear rubble with their hands following a powerful earthquake ...
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  • A volunteer walks near dead bodies at a makeshift tent in a Padang hospital, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A volunteer walks near dead bodies at a makeshift tent in a Padang ...
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  • A man walks amid the rubble of an earthquake-damaged building in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A man walks amid the rubble of an earthquake-damaged building in ...
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  • Injured people rest at a makeshift hospital in Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Injured people rest at a makeshift hospital in Padang, on Indonesia's ...
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  • Volunteers count dead bodies at a makeshift tent in a Padang hospital, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Volunteers count dead bodies at a makeshift tent in a Padang hospital, ...
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  • People gather in front of the governor's office after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    People gather in front of the governor's office after an earthquake ...
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  • A video grab shows a foot among the wreckage of a building following an earthquake in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A video grab shows a foot among the wreckage of a building following ...
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  • An injured girl cries during an evacuation after an earthquake hit Padang, Indonesia's Sumatra island
    An injured girl cries during an evacuation after an earthquake hit ...
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  • A man comforts a relative after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A man comforts a relative after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia'...
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  • A women comforts her relative at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    A women comforts her relative at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's ...
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  • People queue for petrol in Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    People queue for petrol in Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island
    Source: Reuters
Medical staff attend to a casualty following a powerful earthquake ...
Overnight, rescue workers rigged up floodlights and brought in a giant excavator as they tried to find students trapped beneath a collapsed three-storey school. The Jakarta Post reported that 60 children were in the building when it collapsed. Police said on Thursday that nine children had been found...
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  • News Source: BBC | about 1 month ago
    Overnight, rescue workers rigged up floodlights and brought in a giant excavator as they tried to find students trapped beneath a collapsed three-storey school. The Jakarta Post reported that 60 children were in the building when it collapsed. Police...
  • News Source: Hindustan times | about 1 month ago
    An estimated 1,100 people have been killed in the massive earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Sumatra province with the toll expected to rise, the UN said on Thursday. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday, hours after a more powerful...
  • News Source: AKI | about 1 month ago
    A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale jolted the Indonesian city of Jambi located in central Sumatra at 8:52 a.m. local time on Thursday, only one day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Padang, in West Sumatra. Indonesia's...
  • News Source: Dawn | about 1 month ago
    Extensive damage to power and communications networks has made the task of locating and treating the injured all the more difficult. Meanwhile, a massive undersea earthquake triggered tsunamis that slammed into the Pacific islands of Samoa and...
  • News Source: The independent | about 1 month ago
    A man from Singapore is pulled alive from the rubble of the Maryani hotel As aid organisations from around the world mobilised to help the victims of the Sumatra disaster yesterday, a UN official warned that the emergency efforts so far were...
  • News Source: The Scotsman | about 1 month ago
    British couple, were thought to have been killed in a succession of natural disasters. More than 500 people have been confirmed dead after two earthquakes hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra in as many days. Yesterday's 6.8-magnitude quake was about...
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  • Blog Source: hygimia69.blogspot.com
    Death toll rises in quake-hit Sumatra, thousands trapped in rubble. Hundreds of people have been confirmed dead in a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Wednesday and thousands remain buried under rubble Thursday, ...
  • Blog Source: the44diaries.wordpress.com
    **44-Update** —Indonesia earthquake toll rises as survivors await relief. A second Indonesian earthquake struck near the city of Padang Thursday as the death toll rose to at least 529. Some residents, fearing aftershocks, sought safety ...
  • Blog Source: luishipolito.wordpress.com
    Officials had little information on those who were missing and feared the death toll would climb into the thousands. Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Ministry of Health's crisis center said that thousands of people may be trapped by ...
  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    A second powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia on Thursday as rescuers struggled to reach survivors of the previous day's temblor, which killed at least 467 people and left thousands trapped under collapsed buildings. ... The death toll from
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Posted By jojoeffe jojoeffe | about 1 month ago
more than 1000 dead after quake in Indonesia. It said that there was a village that all of their house was collapsed. Lots of people buried and unhelped, the rescue team is unable to help them all in a short time, especially the places that are far from the city, because the road are damaged too.

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