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June 7, 2000
Refugees Flee Sumtra After Quake
Filed at 4:29 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
BENGKULU, Indonesia (AP) -- Planes and warships
brought medical
supplies, food and tents today to Sumatra, an
Indonesian island
devastated by a massive earthquake, even as more
aftershocks rattled
the region.
About 100 refugees, some injured, fled by boat
from Enggano, the
island nearest to the undersea epicenter of the
7.9-magnitude
earthquake that hit Sunday night, killing at
least 94 people and
injuring up to 1,900.
``Everything has been ruined. All the houses are
damaged,'' said
Wawan, 33, one of the refugees. ``No help has
come to us yet. The
island needs help, food, medicine and tents.''
Wawan, who like many Indonesians uses only one
name, said dozens of
people were injured on Enggano, 125 miles
southwest of the port city
of Bengkulu.
The rest of Enggano's 1,800 people were still
thought to be on the
island. Two Dutch and one Indonesian navy ship
were heading for the
island and would deliver food and medicine by
helicopter on Thursday,
said Hanf Bilberbeek, a military attache from
the Dutch embassy in
Jakarta.
Local press reported 117 dead, but hospital
staff and police put the
number of fatalities lower. An emergency
government task force
reported 94 dead, 930 badly hurt and 934
slightly hurt.
The second of two Singaporean military planes
carrying medical
supplies and tents landed at Bengkulu. Four
Dutch navy ships and one
frigate from Belgium were set to deliver
supplies and help restore
electricity and rebuild Bengkulu's hospital.
A U.N. disaster assessment team was already in
Bengkulu, as well as
international and Indonesian Red Cross staff.
Helicopter
reconnaissance of the area was delayed by bad
weather.
The United States today pledged $25,000 in aid
and promised to give
more if required. Australia promised $290,000.
Japan and Thailand
have also made donations.
Many of the earthquake victims, afraid to return
to their damaged
homes, complained that the cash-strapped
Indonesian government has
been slow to respond and has done little to help
them.
Government officials have admitted logistic
problems, but said they
were doing their best to cope.
The quake cut off communications and electricity
and closed the
area's main airport. Health officials were
worried about the spread of
disease because supplies of clean water were
scarce.
In Bengkulu, authorities collected rice and
vegetables to distribute to
needy families at mosques in the rubble-strewn
town as the
unseasonable downpours began.
New casualties from outlying areas were arriving
at the damaged and
structurally unsafe Yunus General Hospital,
where surgeons performed
operations under dripping shelters fashioned
from old parachutes.
``We need medical supplies, we need more tents.
We need blood and
operating equipment,'' said Dr. Ahmad Budiono.
Earthquakes are common in Indonesia. Even so,
Sunday night's tremor
was one of the most powerful recorded here in
several years.
It shook much of western half of the archipelago
nation. People in
Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, more than 300
miles to the southeast, as
well as in the neighboring island state of
Singapore, fled their
apartments after high-rise buildings swayed.
More than 500
aftershocks have been recorded.
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