JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island has left thousands of people trapped under rubble, a senior health ministry official said on Wednesday.
Rustam Pakaya, the head of the health ministry's disaster centre, said via a telephone text message that a hospital in Padang in the area near the epicentre of the quake had also collapsed.
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