Desperate residents loot, dig for quake survivors

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Desperate residents loot, dig for quake survivors

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAN174039.htm

GUNUNGSITOLI, Indonesia, March 30 (Reuters) - When the quake struck, three of Sanotona Halawa's children bolted upstairs.

That could have saved them three months ago when giant waves devastated northern Indonesia, but this time it was a fatal error.

Halawa, 48, was among thousands of people on Nias island who were mourning dead relatives on Wednesday or digging through rubble in the faint hope of finding survivors.

The body of his 20-year-old son Yurisman could be seen lying face down among the concrete remains of his house.

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