Quake landslides wipe out 4 villages in Indonesia PADANG, Indonesia - At least four Indonesian villages were obliterated by earthquake-triggered landslides that buried as many as 644 people including a wedding party under mountains of mud and debris, officials said Saturday. Indonesian quake toll at 1,100, thousands missing PADANG, Indonesia - As rescue workers searched for survivors in the wreckage of a four-story school Thursday, Mira Utami's mother clawed away, too -- looking for the shoes missing from her daughter's body. Mira was taking a high school English final when the quake hit, flattening the school in seconds and killing her a week before her 16th birthday. 2nd quake shakes Indonesia after temblor kills 529 PADANG, Indonesia - Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 529 people. The death toll was expected to rise.
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