5,000 now dead in Indonesia; Medical team, medicines from RP off today 20,000 injured, 130,000 homeless in huge tragedy.(Main News)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: May 30, 2006 | Copyright information

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Aid was trickling in yesterday for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people on Indonesia's Java island and left tens of thousands of homeless foraging for food and shelter.

Many survivors who were injured or whose homes were destroyed by the quake spent a rainy Sunday night in the open on the grounds of hospitals and mosques or in makeshift shelters beside the rubble of their houses.

The 6.3 magnitude quake's official death toll reached 5,136. The tremor early on Saturday was centered just off the Indian Ocean coast ...

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