See the devastation on Sulawesi island:Watch scenes of devastation wrought by Friday's earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia's Sulawesi island. The official death toll increased to 1,407, with thousands injured and more than 70,000 displaced from their homes, said national disaster agency spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)Food, water, fuel and medicine was still slow to reach the hardest-hit areas outside Palu, the largest city heavily damaged in Friday's disaster. Little of that, however, has reached the disaster zone, and increasingly desperate residents grabbed food and fuel from damaged stores and begged for help. And he said the World Health Organization is warning that a lack of shelter and damaged water sanitation facilities could lead to outbreaks of communicable diseases.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2018 04:30 UTC