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Foreign rescue teams leave quake-hit Indonesia city
Wed Oct 7, 2009 9:22am EDT
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PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Relief workers struggled to reach Indonesian quake survivors still without food or shelter a week after the disaster, while foreign rescue teams packed up their high-tech equipment on Wednesday and prepared to pull out.
Aid has been pouring into the shattered West Sumatran city of Padang since the September 30 earthquake, but the scale of the disaster, heavy rain and damaged infrastructure have meant it has been slow to reach outlying areas.
Helicopters are often the only way that some communities in the hills around Padang can be easily reached after landslides triggered by the 7.6 magnitude quake severed roads.
"I'm now living in a tent. We have not received any aid. I'm very upset with the local government. I see aid but it passed us by," said a visibly emotional Ardi, 31, from Lubuk Laweh, an area outside Padang that was devastated by landslides.
The father-of-four said he had lost an 8-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son in the landslide, which cut a deadly path through the village leaving only a huge wall of mud and debris.
Work using heavy equipment to bring down half-collapsed buildings in Padang, a port city of 900,000, continued, despite fears many bodies may still be under the rubble.
There was a brief moment of hope on Tuesday when workers thought they had heard a woman crying for help under the rubble of the collapsed Dutch-colonial era Ambacang hotel. But an Australian rescue team later turned up nothing.
Indonesia's official toll from the quake is 704 dead and 295 missing, but the health minister has said it could reach 3,000.
SAVED BY A COFFEE
Ghazali, 28, described his lucky escape after he had been taking part in a training program with 40 people for insurance firm Prudential at the Ambacang on the day of the quake.
The trainee insurance agent, who is staying with relatives, said he briefly left the hotel to buy a coffee in a cafe across the street because the hotel drinks were too pricey for him.
"I sat down and the hotel collapsed," he said, adding that he had been too shocked since to tell authorities he was safe.
For many others, the hope of finding even the bodies of their loved ones was all they could cling to.
"I know they are probably dead and I accept it but I am still praying that at least their bodies can be found and identified," said Arief Fauzi, 36, in Kepala Koto, a village devastated by a landslide where the stench of dead bodies hangs in the air.
Fauzi lost his parents and 13 other relatives, including a sister, aunts, uncles, cousins and nephews, and has been waiting at a tent for more news with remaining family members. Continued...
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