“What we saw was pretty widespread destruction in urban centers,” she said. “More recently we heard that more supplies are starting to stream in.”
Rescue workers continue digging through rubble searching for survivors in the town of Meureudu and several other locations, the Associated Press reported.
“We believe we have found 99 percent of the victims,” said Sutopo Nugroho, a spokesman for national disaster management agency told Reuters.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s island of Sumatra killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds more on Wednesday, damaging or toppling more than 11,000 buildings and displacing more than 45,000 people in the northern province of Aceh, according to the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency.
“The basic needs of refugees must be met during the evacuation,” the agency said in statement.
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