Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) – the number of dead in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami reported on the island of Celebes surpassed 2,000 people, said Tuesday Indonesia disaster mitigation Agency, while the authorities are p They repaired to conclude the search for thousands of victims who are feared to be buried among the mud and rubble of the most affected districts.
Many families lost everything. Photo: AP in total, authorities confirmed the death of 2,010 people because of the double disaster of Sept. 28, said the spokesman for the Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.Las authorities will end with prayers the search in the areas of Petobo, Balaroa, and Jono Oge, where the earthquake made the soil licuara, engulfing homes and burying their occupants with them, said the spokesman.
The bodies of rescue works carried out to remove the debris. Picture: AP the efforts to retrieve the bodies, many of them up to 3 meters (10 feet) under the mud and debris, will not continue for the difficulty of the terrain and the advanced state of decomposition, which makes the bodies beyond recognition and may cause pollution, said Nugroho.
“October 11, we will have simultaneous prayers in Balaroa, Petobo, and Jono Oge to conclude with the recovery of bodies”, he said at the daily briefing on humanitarian efforts.
Although the official search will end, Nugroho said that authorities won’t prevent the villagers to continue digging through the rubble in search of their loved ones.
A woman cries upon seeing the area devastated by the earthquake and earthquakes. Photo: AP areas, which now seem to be extensive Moors, will be converted into parks to remember the victims and survivors will be relocated to safer places, he added. Nugroho said that the Agency could not verify unofficial calculations of the heads of the villages Balaroa and Petobo, according to which some 5,000 missing. He added that the region has registered 508 aftershocks from the magnitude 7.5 quake, which caused a huge wall of water that destroyed large tracts of land in Palu and surrounding areas.
The disaster destroyed more than 65,000 homes and buildings, and displaced more than 70,000 inhabitants. Thousands of people still live in temporary shelters and camps in Palu, but life starts to return to normal in some areas, with plans underway for the redevelopment, officials said.
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