At least 34 people have been killed and hundreds injured following a strong earthquake that shook Indonesia’s Sulawesi island early on Friday morning, prompting landslides and destroying houses.
“The hospital is flattened,” said Arianto, who goes by one name, from the rescue agency in Mamuju city, near to Majene. Rescuers were also trying to reach a family of eight buried beneath the rubble of their destroyed home, he added. Busrah Basir Maras, a teacher, 36, was sleeping at home in Malunda, Majene, when the earthquake hit. His family awoke him and they fled immediately on motorbike.
Survivors who were still stuck in rubble at the epicentre needed medicines and trauma healing, he said. In 2018, the city of Palu in Sulawesi was struck by a devastating 6.2-magnitude quake and tsunami that killed thousands of people. The response to Friday’s quake is complicated further by the coronavirus, which Indonesia has struggled to contain. The number of daily cases topped 10,000 this week.
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