Hundreds of tourists evacuated from Indonesia after deadly earthquake
Mataram — Indonesia evacuated hundreds of tourists from popular resorts and sent rescuers fanning across the holiday island of Lombok after a powerful quake killed at least 91 people and reduced thousands of buildings to rubble. The shallow 6.9-magnitude quake sparked terror among tourists and locals alike, coming just a week after another deadly tremor surged through Lombok, killing at least 17 people. Rescuers on Monday searched for survivors in the rubble of houses, mosques and schools that were destroyed in the latest disaster, which struck on Sunday evening. "Ninety-one people died, 209 suffered from serious injuries," national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. "There are challenges: the roads were damaged, three bridges were also damaged, some locations are difficult to reach and we don’t have enough personnel." An operation was also under way on Monday to evacuate about 1,200 tourists from the Gili Islands, three tiny, coral-fringed tropical islands a few k...
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