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Padang : Indonesia | about 1 month ago  
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  • A survivor cleans rubble inside Chinese temple which was destroyed by a powerful earthquake struck in Padang of the Indonesia province
    A survivor cleans rubble inside Chinese temple which was destroyed by ...
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  • People wash their clothes in a river in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
    People wash their clothes in a river in the earthquake-hit area of ...
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  • A survivor watches the sunset outside a mosque in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
    A survivor watches the sunset outside a mosque in the earthquake-hit ...
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  • A soldier stands guard in front of the Ambacang hotel which collapsed during the earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
    A soldier stands guard in front of the Ambacang hotel which collapsed ...
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  • A survivor slides down a slope in a river in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia
    A survivor slides down a slope in a river in the earthquake-hit area ...
    Source: Reuters
A survivor cleans rubble inside Chinese temple which was destroyed by ...
Kanimbla will leave the Northern Territory tomorrow, carrying 470 members of the Defence Force, including medics and engineers, to help with the earthquake recovery effort. Nearly two weeks after the 7.6-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Sumatra, killing more than 700 people, survivors are...
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  • News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month ago
    Kanimbla will leave the Northern Territory tomorrow, carrying 470 members of the Defence Force, including medics and engineers, to help with the earthquake recovery effort. Nearly two weeks after the 7.6-magnitude quake struck off the coast of...
  • News Source: SwissInfo | about 1 month ago
    The money will go to Swiss humanitarian organisations on the ground that have carried out emergency relief and are now helping people back on their feet. The Swiss government has also been sending aid and rescue expertise. Volunteers at Swiss...
  • News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month ago
    ET The Associated Press The Navy Visual News Service, U.S. air force personnel and U.S. marines unload relief supplies from a helicopter in west Sumatra, Indonesia, following two earthquakes on Friday. (Associated Press) The massive relief effort...
  • News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month ago
    Defence said fresh drinking water was the number one priority for residents as the local water treatment plant, supplying 60 per cent of the city's water, had been damaged. Soldiers from the Darwin-based 1st Combat Engineer Regiment are operating a...
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  • Blog Source: refuniteaustralia.wordpress.com
    International rescue teams have called off the hunt for survivors buried under rubble in an Indonesian city hit by earthquakes a week ago. Aid efforts in Padang, a city of 900000 on the island of Sumatra, have switched from a rescue mission to
  • Blog Source: bobmckerrow.blogspot.com
    Coincidentally I am flying in to Padang with Vincent Nicod, Head of the ICRC in Indonesia, who worked with me throughout the Pakistan earthquake. On Thursday night coming home from a restaurant, I passed the hotel where diggers were dismantling the .
  • Blog Source: bobmckerrow.blogspot.com
    The PMI blood bank collapsed in the quake and I visited it with Pak Mar'ie, Chairman PMI. Outside on the forecourt, Red Cross blood transfusion experts take blood out in the open. The 200 units they have taken in the last few days have saved ... The
  • Blog Source: midknightreview-referencelibrary.blogspot.com
    Village Deaths To Increase Indonesia Quake Toll 400 at wedding party feared dead in mudslides in rural area Rescue workers remove debris as they attempt to locate victims inside the collapsed Ambacang Hotel on Saturday. Survivors buried under the
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