| Photo Credit: APmore-inIndonesian rescue workers will stop searching for the bodies of victims of an earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi on October 11, the national disaster mitigation agency said on October 7. The announcement came after the official death toll from the 7.5-magnitude quake and a tsunami it triggered on September 28 rose to 1,763. Some limited searching might still be undertaken but large-scale searches with many personnel and heavy equipment would cease, he said. 'My soul wouldn’t rest'One grieving father appeared resigned to the fact the search for victims will end within days. His wife and two daughters were swept away in the tsunami that hit Palu's seafront shortly after the earthquake.

Source: The Hindu October 07, 2018 08:27 UTC