Indonesia Earthquake Deaths Top 130 as Aid Effort Intensifies

Aug 08, 2018, 11:45 AM

(BANGSAL, Indonesia) — Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 131 people, while rescuers Wednesday doubled down on efforts to find the dead, pulling another body from the rubble.

Volunteers and rescue personnel were erecting more temporary shelters for the tens of thousands of people left homeless on Lombok by the magnitude 7.0 quake on Sunday evening.