Indonesia disaster agency says death toll from quake and tsunami climbs to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia disaster agency says death toll from quake and tsunami climbs to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing. </s> By The Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia disaster agency says death toll from quake and tsunami climbs to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia disaster agency says death toll from quake and tsunami climbs to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing.

Copyright © 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed. </s> JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia disaster agency says death toll from quake and tsunami climbs to 1,763, with more than 5,000 feared missing. </s> Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 2,010 from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi island on Sep.28.

The official number of missing remained 671 while it is feared that 5,000 people could be still buried under the rubble. </s> The official death toll from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia on September the 28th has risen to 2,045.

National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman, Sutopo Nugroho said although the excavation process will stop, the emergency responses ‘will continue’ until the end of October.

About 82,000 people have been displaced in Palu alone and many are living in crude shelters made from salvaged wood and plastics from devastated villages and its surrounding hills. </s> With some remote areas yet to be contacted and crews struggling to reach survivors, the death toll from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise above 1,200 people. </s> Indonesian authorities Saturday raised the death toll to 387, the number of injured to 13,688 and those displaced to 387,067 following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that recently hit the island of Lombok and its subsequent aftershocks.

A spokesperson for the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, warned in a statement that the death toll could further increase because of the ongoing search for victims buried under rubble and landslides after Sunday's temblor. </s> Indonesia's disaster agency says tsunami death toll climbs to 222, with 843 injured and 28 missing

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's disaster agency says tsunami death toll climbs to 222, with 843 injured and 28 missing. </s> The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster climbed to 1,424 on Thursday with time running out to rescue survivors six days after the disaster struck.

Residents on Sulawesi Island's west coast scavenged for food in farms and orchards as the government struggled to overcome shortages of water, food, shelter and fuel in a disaster zone with no power and degraded communications.

Most of the confirmed dead were in Palu, while losses in remote areas are yet unknown.

Communication links are down and bridges and roads have been destroyed or blocked.

In 2004, an earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean that killed 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.
The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 1,571.