BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): A desperate fight for life was under way in Indonesia yesterday as survivors of a gigantic earthquake and killer waves scrabbled for food among mud and corpses while the death toll shot past 36,000.
With great tracts of land still under surging ocean and no word from many isolated communities, officials warned the casualty figure would jump when contact was finally made with the area emerging as the quake's ground zero.
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