Victims were buried under their homes, schools or places of worship, or killed by landslides triggered by the earthquake
Rescue teams continued their search for the dozens of people who remain missing sincestruck Indonesia on Monday killing at least 271 people, many of them children, and displacing tens of thousands who are now living in makeshift shelters, the country’s disaster-management agency said.
. Thousands of rescue workers have fanned out, some of them with dogs, to search through the wreckage, the agency said Wednesday.
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