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More bodies found as death toll from Indonesia quake nears 2,000

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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.

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