A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia early today, killing up to 1,325 people and leaving overwhelmed doctors begging for help, a government official said.

An Indonesian fisherman was found trapped under his boat and severely dehydrated today, a week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The known death toll from Asia’s earthquake and tsunami catastrophe passed 124,000 today as a deluge from the skies added to the misery in many of the affected nations.

INDONESIAN police seized documents last month showing terrorists were planning an attack in the area around Jakarta’s Marriott Hotel, where 10 people died yesterday in a suicide car bombing.

TERRORISTS linked to al-Qaida were blamed for a suicide car bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital, which killed at least 14 people and wounded 150 yesterday.

A German couple have been shot in Indonesia’s war-torn Aceh province, where the army has launched a fierce offensive against separatist rebels.

INDONESIA has told foreign aid workers to leave troubled Aceh for security reasons and says Jakarta wants to take over all humanitarian assistance in the province.

Thirteen people have been killed in the latest separatist violence in Indonesia's Aceh province.