The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake destroyed thousands of buildings and triggered panic among tourists and locals on Lombok Sunday, just a week after a tremor had surged through the holiday island and killed 17
Crews using heavy equipment to search a collapsed mosque in Lombok managed to pull one man alive from the wreckage. Pic/AP
There were fears the death toll would rise as workers with heavy machinery shifted rubble at a collapsed mosque. Across much of the island, villages have been turned into virtual ghost towns, with residents sleeping out in the open — scared to stay near their shattered homes amid hundreds of aftershocks.
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