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Search and rescue efforts are still underway almost two weeks after Indonesia was struck by a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami. Indonesia's disaster agency say they have recovered 1,763 bodies so far from the 7.5-magnitude and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28, the number of people believed missing has soared to 5,000.
Aid pours into disaster-ravaged Palu after days of delays as efforts ramped up to reach 200,000 people in desperate need following a deadly quake-tsunami in the Indonesian city.
2018-10-03 16:41 Indonesia earthquake, tsunami: aid effort gears up as death toll surpasses 1,400
Days after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the Indonesian Island of Lombok killing more than 430 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. Among those whose lives have been turned upside down, are many children and aid agencies are trying to help them overcome their trauma. France 24''s Clovis Casali reports.
In Turkey, a 77-year-old woman was pulled alive from the rubble 212 hours after the earthquake. Her miraculous story is one of the very few like it now as rescue teams start to wind down their efforts. FRANCE 24's Thameen Al-Kheetan, Julien Chehida and Brice Agier-Grégoire went to meet some of the different aid workers sent in to help from around the world.
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