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...