Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Indonesian Tsunami Death Toll : 112 People

Mentawai, West Sumatra; The death toll from the quake 7.2 on the Richter scale followed by tsunami that struck the Mentawai Islands regency, West Sumatra, until Tuesday (10/26/2010) night, increased to 112 people.
The number of casualties was revealed in the coordination meeting of the earthquake and tsunami response led by the Governor of West Sumatra Mentawai Irwan Prayitno and attended Regent Mentawai, Edison, in Padang, on Tuesday night.
While the number of people reported missing to reach 502 people, while reaching thousands of people displaced.
Attempts to deliver aid to disaster areas are still constrained to bad weather in Mentawai waters, but has set off a ship to bring aid and volunteers as well as medical teams.

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