Your Wednesday briefing: Indonesia's death toll rises

Also, Saudi Arabia beats Argentina, Australia loses to France and lockdowns spread throughout China.
ImageRescuers carried a body bag through the rubble during a a rescue operation.Credit...Yulius Satria Wijaya/Antara Foto, via Reuters
The death toll is rising in Indonesia
Workers in Indonesia are scrambling to find survivors of Monday's earthquake as power outages and blocked roads hamper rescue efforts. Many of the dead were women and children in homes or schools. More than 150 people are still missing. Yesterday, rescue dogs sniffed out what officials estimated were dozens of people still buried under mounds of rust-colored dirt.
Tens of thousands of people were displaced from their homes. More than a thousand people are injured and hospitals are overwhelmed. Some people are treated outside, in makeshift tents, and there are not enough ambulances. Here are photos of the aftermath.
Details: A full picture of the damage caused by the 5.6 magnitude earthquake is still emerging. An entire village was swallowed up by a landslide.
Background: Indonesia sits on the "Ring of Fire", an arc of volcanoes and lines of fault along the Pacific basin. Earthquakes can trigger landslides, which can be catastrophic in a country where deforestation for farmland and

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Your Wednesday briefing: Indonesia's death toll rises

Also, Saudi Arabia beats Argentina, Australia loses to France and lockdowns spread throughout China.

Rescuers carried a body bag through the rubble during a rescue operation.

The death toll is rising in Indonesia

Workers in Indonesia are scrambling to find survivors of Monday's earthquake as power outages and blocked roads hamper rescue efforts. Many of the dead were women and children in homes or schools. More than 150 people are still missing. Yesterday, rescue dogs sniffed out what officials estimated were dozens of people still buried under mounds of rust-colored dirt.

Tens of thousands of people were displaced from their homes. More than a thousand people are injured and hospitals are overwhelmed. Some people are treated outside, in makeshift tents, and there are not enough ambulances. Here are photos of the aftermath.

Details: A full picture of the damage caused by the 5.6 magnitude earthquake is still emerging. An entire village was swallowed up by a landslide.

Background: Indonesia sits on the "Ring of Fire", an arc of volcanoes and lines of fault along the Pacific basin. Earthquakes can trigger landslides, which can be catastrophic in a country where deforestation for farmland and