“Up to Saturday we still saw many people screaming for help from the roof. But we could not do anything to help them. Now their cries are no longer heard,” a 52-year-old, from a village in Indonesia, told the Associate Press, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that shook his country.
The magnitude of the earthquake that struck Indonesia was 7.5 and the tsunami was said to have been 20 feet high.
More than 840 people have died and thousands have been rendered homeless.
Indonesia is grappling with tremendous loss and striving to recover. The European Union and ten other countries have offered help.
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo told the Associate Press (AP) that in Indonesia’s Petobo, "it is estimated that there are still hundred of victims buried in mud material.”
In the city of Palu alone, hundreds of people have been injured and thousands of homes have been damaged.
But cases of survivors being pulled out of the rubble are being reported as well. Rescue efforts are underway.
(With inputs from Associate Press.)
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