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Indonesia steps up search for quake victims

by VTV410 October 2018 Last updated at 15:07 PM

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Indonesia steps up search for quake victims
Gumbu, 73, stands with is family out his tent at a camp for displaced victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo: Reuters)
VTV.vn - Rescue workers in Indonesia stepped up their search for victims of the earthquake and tsunami on Tuesday, hoping to find as many bodies as they can before this week's deadline for their work to halt, as the official death toll rose to 2,010.

The national disaster mitigation agency has called off the search from Thursday, citing concern about the spread of disease. Perhaps as many as 5,000 victims of the 7.5 magnitude quake and tsunami on Sept. 28 have yet to be found, most of them entombed in flows of mud flows that surged from the ground when the quake agitated the soil into a liquid mire.