Rescue officials fear the full scale of Indonesia’s earthquake and tsunami could climb far past the more than 800 already confirmed dead. Rescue officials fear the full scale of Indonesia’s earthquake and tsunami could climb far past the more than 800 already confirmed dead. The country’s disaster agency said the death toll more than doubled to 832, and nearly all of those were from the hard-hit city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi. “The death toll is believed to be still increasing since many bodies were still under the wreckage, while many have not been reached,” said agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. The survivors were to be evacuated to the Sulawesi city of Makassar in the island’s far south.

Source: Irish Independent September 30, 2018 09:56 UTC