Frantic Hunt for Survivors ; Quake Toll Likely to Hit 1,000

Daily PostMarch 31, 2005

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FIREFIGHTERS freed a man who was trapped for 36 hours in the wreckage of a collapsed building yesterday, as other earthquake survivors on Indonesia's Nias island searched frantically for loved ones missing amid the rubble.

The estimated death toll from the second major natural disaster to strike western Indonesia in three months stood at 1,000, though the number of bodies recovered remained less than 400.

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Frantic Hunt for Survivors ; Quake Toll Likely to Hit 1,000

Isolated looting was reported in Gunung Sitoli, the largest town on Nias, while health off...

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