Bad weather hits tsunami relief
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October 30, 2010, Saturday
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RELIEF planes have had to drop boxes of dried noodles onto tsunami-hit Indonesian islands as storms and a shortage of vessels made helicopter and boat deliveries almost impossible days after the wave killed more than 400 people.
Hundreds of kilometers away, a volcano on the island of Java that killed 35 people this week erupted five more times yesterday, sending clouds of ash cascading down its slopes, but no more casualties were reported. Officials said two more people had died from burns caused by Tuesday's eruption.
Four days after the tsunami crashed into the Mentawai islands off Sumatra, details of survivors' misery and new accounts of the moments when the wave struck were still trickling out from the area, which was cut off by rough seas for nearly two days after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that churned up the wave.
A group of surfers told of huddling, screaming and praying as they watched a wall of water cross a lagoon and slam into their three-story, thatched-roof resort. The power of the wave shook the building so hard they feared it would collapse. All 27 people at the resort survived.
"It was noise and chaos. You could hear the water coming, coming," said Sebastian Carvallo, from Chile, yesterday.
Carvallo said at least two of the waves were up to 5 meters high. Officials have said there was only one wave 3m high, but several witnesses have described waves taller than that.
The toll from the tsunami rose to 408 yesterday as officials found more bodies - 303 are still missing, said Agus Prayitno of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management center.
Along with the 35 people killed when Mount Merapi erupted on Tuesday, the number of dead from the two disasters, which struck within 24 hours of each other, has now reached 443.
Hundreds of kilometers away, a volcano on the island of Java that killed 35 people this week erupted five more times yesterday, sending clouds of ash cascading down its slopes, but no more casualties were reported. Officials said two more people had died from burns caused by Tuesday's eruption.
Four days after the tsunami crashed into the Mentawai islands off Sumatra, details of survivors' misery and new accounts of the moments when the wave struck were still trickling out from the area, which was cut off by rough seas for nearly two days after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that churned up the wave.
A group of surfers told of huddling, screaming and praying as they watched a wall of water cross a lagoon and slam into their three-story, thatched-roof resort. The power of the wave shook the building so hard they feared it would collapse. All 27 people at the resort survived.
"It was noise and chaos. You could hear the water coming, coming," said Sebastian Carvallo, from Chile, yesterday.
Carvallo said at least two of the waves were up to 5 meters high. Officials have said there was only one wave 3m high, but several witnesses have described waves taller than that.
The toll from the tsunami rose to 408 yesterday as officials found more bodies - 303 are still missing, said Agus Prayitno of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management center.
Along with the 35 people killed when Mount Merapi erupted on Tuesday, the number of dead from the two disasters, which struck within 24 hours of each other, has now reached 443.
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