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Chance of more survivors from Indonesia quake dims
PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue teams in the Indonesian city of Padang combed rubble through the night in a desperate bid to find more survivors of Wednesday's earthquake, but increasingly were retrieving only bodies. Rescuers work at night in Ambacang hotel that was destroyed by an earthquake in downtown Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province October 3, 2009.(REUTERS/Erik de Castro) On Saturday, rescuers pushed deeper into earthquake-hit Sumatra, finding entire villages obliterated by landslides, and homeless survivors desperate for food, water and shelter. In Padang, a...
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