MATARAM (Indonesia): The loss of life toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has risen above 160, an respectable said lately, as authorities urgently appealed for drugs, meals and blank water for some 156,000 other people displaced by means of the crisis.
Many worried villagers are staying underneath tents or tarpaulins dotted alongside roads or in parched rice fields, and makeshift medical facilities have been set as much as treat the injured.
Evacuees in some encampments say they're working out of meals, while others are suffering mental trauma after the tough quake, which struck only one week after every other tremor surged in the course of the island and killed 17.
"The death toll rose to 164 people with at least 1,400 people seriously injured and 156,000 displaced," nationwide crisis company spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho informed AFP.
Tens of 1000's of homes, businesses and mosques were levelled by means of the quake, which struck on Sunday as evening prayers were being said around the Muslim-majority island.
Local authorities, global reduction teams and the central govt have begun establishing aid, but shattered roads have slowed efforts to achieve survivors in the mountainous north of Lombok, which bore the brunt of the quake.
"We are still waiting for assessments from some of the more remote areas in the north of the island, but it is already clear that Sunday's earthquake was exceptionally destructive," Christopher Rassi, the top of a Red Cross assessment team on Lombok, said in a observation.
He estimated 75 consistent with cent of houses are damaged in some villages in east and north Lombok.
"There are still some evacuees that have not yet been touched by aid, especially in North Lombok and West Lombok," Nugroho tweeted lately. (AFP) CK
Many worried villagers are staying underneath tents or tarpaulins dotted alongside roads or in parched rice fields, and makeshift medical facilities have been set as much as treat the injured.
Evacuees in some encampments say they're working out of meals, while others are suffering mental trauma after the tough quake, which struck only one week after every other tremor surged in the course of the island and killed 17.
"The death toll rose to 164 people with at least 1,400 people seriously injured and 156,000 displaced," nationwide crisis company spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho informed AFP.
Tens of 1000's of homes, businesses and mosques were levelled by means of the quake, which struck on Sunday as evening prayers were being said around the Muslim-majority island.
Local authorities, global reduction teams and the central govt have begun establishing aid, but shattered roads have slowed efforts to achieve survivors in the mountainous north of Lombok, which bore the brunt of the quake.
"We are still waiting for assessments from some of the more remote areas in the north of the island, but it is already clear that Sunday's earthquake was exceptionally destructive," Christopher Rassi, the top of a Red Cross assessment team on Lombok, said in a observation.
He estimated 75 consistent with cent of houses are damaged in some villages in east and north Lombok.
"There are still some evacuees that have not yet been touched by aid, especially in North Lombok and West Lombok," Nugroho tweeted lately. (AFP) CK
Death toll in Indonesia quake rises to 164
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