A powerful earthquake shook the island of Sulawesi on Sunday, killing 14 people and seriously injuring 30 in the latest in a string of disasters to hit Indonesia. Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous nation, already is coping with a jetliner crash that killed 234, choking air pollution from wildfires, a series of ship collisions and a grinding drought. Another six died in surrounding villages. The temblor was centered just 12 miles from Pare Pare, said the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency. Some frightened residents refused to spend Sunday night inside their houses in case of aftershocks.
Many homes have large cracks in their walls.
A hospital was among the damaged buildings. Some patients managed to walk outside to safety. Others were wheeled out on trolleys. Sunday's disaster comes two days after a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed on the island of Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard. Meanwhile, hundreds of fires lit two months ago to clear land raged out of control in forests and scrubland.