“We expect this data to continue to change,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster agency. Survivors take a break as they salvage items from the debris of a factory complex in Palu on October 3, 2018. The earthquake turned parts of the hard soil ground into loose, flowing mud, which swept houses away and pulled hundreds of victims along with it. The Indonesian government is facing boiling anger over perceptions that their response has so far been slow and inadequate. Almost 2,700 have been seriously injured, many of them treated at a still-standing hospital in Palu city.

Source: thestar October 03, 2018 08:03 UTC