At least 43,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that stuck off Indonesia’s Aceh province, authorities said today, as the government and aid agencies pooled efforts to meet the basic survival needs of people.
The estimate of the number of homeless people continues to grow while relief efforts was provided across the three districts near the epicenter of Wednesday’s magnitude 6.5 quake, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said in a statement.
It said that the basic requirement of refugees must be met during the evacuation. Atleast 100 people have died and hundreds injured in the earthquake, which also destroyed or damaged more than 11,000 buildings. President Joko Widodo travelled yesterday to various affected areas of the province.