Palu

A month on, Palu faces health crisis

Indonesia's quake-tsunami battered city of Palu is facing a public health crisis as torrential rains threaten to spread malaria and dengue fever to the devastated region a month after the disaster, aid agencies have warned.On 28 September, a magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of Palu on Sulawesi island, killing some 2,200 people and displacing more than 220,000.Thousands more are missing, presumed dead, after entire neighbourhoods were swallowed up by liquefaction

28 October 2018
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Disaster tourism obstructing rescue and relief

Days after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a huge tsunami and soil liquefaction that massacred the coastal cities of Palu and Donggala as well as surrounding areas, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo authorised the acceptance of urgent foreign aid for humanitarian efforts in the province.

8 October 2018
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UN warns Indonesia quake needs 'vast'

Nearly 1,400 people are now known to have died in the quake-tsunami that smashed into Indonesia's Sulawesi island, with United Nations (UN) officials warning needs are "vast" for both desperate survivors and rescue teams still searching for victims.Almost 200,000 people want 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 7.5-magnitude quake and the tsunami it spawned.Survi

3 October 2018
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Indonesia death toll tops 800

Mass graves were being readied for hundreds of victims of an Indonesian quake and tsunami on Monday as authorities battled to stave off disease and reach desperate people still trapped under shattered buildings.

1 October 2018
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Hundreds killed in Indonesia quake-tsunami

Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region.The national disaster agency put the official death toll so far at 384, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the toll was likely to rise.Some 540 people were badly injured, it added.In the city - home to around 350,000 peopl

30 September 2018
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