30 people found under hotel rubble
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 10/04/2009 8:45 AM
The search and rescue (SAR) team found 30 victims under the rubble of the Ambacang hotel, Padang following the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that rocked the city.
Four of them were pulled out of the rubble Saturday, but only two were still alive, Kompas.com reported. The report gave no details about the other victims.
"We will focus on rescuing survivors," the National SAR team spokesman Gagah Perkasa said as quoted by kompas.com.
His team has detected three more people still trapped under the wreckage.
The National Police, the Indonesian Military, and volunteers helped the SAR team to find more victims.
Wednesday’s earthquake killed at least 540 people.
