Indonesia earthquake and tsunami: All the latest updates
Death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster passes 1,400 as rescuers scramble to locate survivors. The death toll in Indonesia 's twin quake-tsunami disaster has climbed above 1,400, with time running out to rescue survivors five days after the disaster struck. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency spokesperson, said the official death toll stood at 1,407 on Wednesday, with thousands injured and more than 70,000 displaced from their homes. Food, water, fuel and medicine was still slow to reach the hardest-hit areas outside the city of Palu on Sulawesi island, and the UN has warned of "vast" unmet needs there. Rescue efforts have been hampered by a lack of heavy machinery, severed transport links and the scale of the damage. Almost 200,000 people need urgent help, the UN's humanitarian office said, among them tens of thousands of children, with an estimated 66,000 homes destroyed or damaged by the magnitude 7.5 ...