Five dead, dozens injured in Indonesia quake

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Newsinfo.inquirer.net, By: Agence France-Presse, 07/01/2013

LAMPAHAN — A powerful earthquake in Indonesia’s Aceh province flattened buildings and sparked landslides Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens in a region devastated by the quake-triggered tsunami of 2004. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck inland at a depth of just 10 kilometers in the mountainous Bener Meriah district in the heart of Aceh, the US Geological Survey said.

 

It destroyed houses in the district, some 320 kilometers from the provincial capital Banda Aceh, and triggered several landslides. Police and troops were deployed to lead rescue efforts, as pictures showed the walls of houses reduced to rubble and roads badly damaged and blocked by landslips.

 

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