Indonesian teams recover more bodies from rubble following quake

A police officer leads a sniffer dog during a search for victims in the ruins of a building in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, flattened by the earthquake (Joshua Marunduh/AP)

Indonesian rescuers have retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a strong earthquake, raising the death toll to 78, while military engineers have managed to reopen ruptured roads to clear access for relief goods.

More heavy equipment reached the hardest-hit city of Mamuju and the neighbouring district of Majene on Sulawesi island, where the magnitude 6.2 quake struck early on Friday, Raditya Jati, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesperson, said.