INDONESIAN QUAKE KILLS DOZENS, TRAPS THOUSANDS
Baku, September 30 (AZERTAC). Indonesian officials say at least 75 people have been killed and thousands more trapped under flattened buildings in a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island, Associated Press reports.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced the death toll at a news conference, hours after the 7.6-magnitude quake hit off the coast of the town of Padang on Wednesday.
Rustam Pakaya, head of the Health Ministry`s crisis center, said thousands of people were trapped under collapsed buildings. He said a field hospital was being prepared to assist the injured.
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