The earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province left many victims, a disaster official said Saturday, as rescuers raced to the region and a reporter with The Associated Press saw numerous bodies in a hard-hit city. Dawn revealed a devastated coastline in Central Sulawesi where the three-metre high tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake Friday smashed into two cities and several settlements. In Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi province, the city of more than 380,000 people was strewn with debris from collapsed buildings. (Dede Budiyarto via AP)Indonesia's president on Friday night said he had instructed the security minister to co-ordinate the government's response to a quake and tsunami that hit central Sulawesi. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2018 01:41 UTC