South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 4 hrs ago
Indonesian quake survivors recall trauma of all-day intense aftershocks, self-rescue
Carolus Winfridus was asleep when an earthquake struck off Indonesia’s island of Flores, as he was awoken by intense rumbling and saw his wardrobe doors flying open.
He and his family quickly scrambled for a way out of their house in the town of Maumere, Sikka Regency, one of nine regencies hit by Saturday’s devastating 7.7-magnitude quake that killed almost 80 people and displaced nearly 100,000.
Survivors and officials describe how blocked roads, power cuts and relentless aftershocks have...
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