Search for loved ones continues on quake island

Firefighters freed a man who was pinned for 36 hours in the wreckage of a collapsed building, as other earthquake survivors on Indonesia’s Nias island searched frantically for loved ones missing amid the rubble.

Search for loved ones continues on quake island

Firefighters freed a man who was pinned for 36 hours in the wreckage of a collapsed building, as other earthquake survivors on Indonesia’s Nias island searched frantically for loved ones missing amid the rubble.

The estimated death toll from the second major natural disaster to strike western Indonesia in three months stood at 1,000, though the number of bodies recovered remained less than 400.

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