Relief Groups Say Quake Crisis Easing
From Times Wire Reports
Aid agencies said a crisis in Indonesia’s earthquake disaster zone was easing, but survivors complained of a lack of food and hospitals struggled to find beds for the injured.
The death toll from Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 quake on Java island rose to 6,234 when officials found 388 more bodies, a government spokesman said. At least 30,000 people were injured and 647,000 left homeless, officials said.
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