The U.N. put the death toll at more than 1,100. Rescue teams search for survivors as foreign governments and aid groups airlift in medicine, food and emergency workers.
Reporting from New Delhi and Padang, Indonesia - About 3,000 people may still be trapped beneath the rubble after Wednesday's magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Indonesia, a disaster that has killed at least 700 people and left several times that number hospitalized, officials said today.
Priyadi Kardono, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Agency, said more than 20,000 buildings were destroyed or badly damaged in the temblor. Many expect the numbers to rise as better information is collected.
Although there were some near-miracles -- college student Ratna Kurniasari Virgo, 19, was pulled out alive from the rubble of her college, the Foreign Language School of Prayoga today about 40 hours after the quake hit -- the chances of finding people alive diminished with each passing hour.
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