Two people have died and buildings have been damaged on the remote Indonesian island of Sumbawa following a strong undersea earthquake.

HEALTH workers in Indonesia’s quake-hit Sumatra are battling to contain local outbreaks of diarrhoea and dengue fever, and require more specialist equipment, officials and a doctor said yesterday.

RESCUERS rushed back into the rubble yesterday after a woman’s cries for help were reported coming from a collapsed hotel six days after Indonesia’s devastating earthquake — but the search was in vain.

INDONESIA said last night it fears thousands have died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands to find survivors.

The Minister for Overseas Aid Peter Power has pledged €500,000 for the victims of the natural disasters in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

A second powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia today as rescuers struggled to reach survivors of the previous day’s shock which is feared to have killed thousands.

Another powerful quake hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island today, the US Geological Survey said.

A POWERFUL earthquake rocked western Indonesia yesterday, trapping thousands under collapsed buildings – including two hospitals – and triggering landslides.

The death toll from Indonesia’s massive earthquake rose to 23 today as more villagers started returning home, an official said.

An earthquake that killed more than 70 people in western Indonesia may have led to heightened activity at three volcanoes, experts warned today.

RELIEF operations swung into gear yesterday, a day after a powerful quake rocked the Indonesian island of Sumatra, as a senior official revised the death toll down to 52.

A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia’s North and West Sumatra provinces today, an official said.

MOURNERS from across the world wept, prayed and observed moments of silence along ravaged Indian Ocean coastlines yesterday to remember those killed by one of nature’s deadliest disasters.

Indonesian scientists today were closely monitoring three volcanoes that have rumbled into life – activity they link to last December’s monster earthquake off the coast of Sumatra Island and the countless other powerful tremors that followed.