FRESH spurts of lava from a nearby volcano yesterday and deteriorating sanitary conditions added to the strain for hundreds of thousands of survivors of Indonesia’s devastating earthquake.

Survivors just a few miles from aid distribution centres in Indonesia said today they’re still waiting for emergency food nearly a week after an earthquake shattered their homes.

A severe aftershock jolted northwestern Pakistan today, a day after India sharply curtailed plans to open its Kashmir border to help survivors of the region’s massive earthquake.