Scores of people are feared drowned after a boat believed to be carrying about 200 asylum seekers capsized south of Indonesia.

Rescuers have discovered bodies near the wreckage of a Russian-made passenger plane that crashed into an Indonesian volcano with 45 people on board.

RESCUE workers called off the search yesterday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivors in the towns and hills of western Indonesia, despite being hampered by torrential rains.