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Search teams made desperate last-ditch efforts today to find survivors, a week on from devastating quake-tsunami in Indonesia.
Officials said, more than a thousand people could still be missing.
The death toll from the disaster has already crossed 1,500. Local military spokesman Muhammad Thohir said that the death toll had risen to 1,558, up about 100 from the previous official figure.
Search efforts focused on eight key locations, including a beach and the Balaroa area where the quake turned the surface temporarily to mush.
About 20 planes carrying vital supplies such as medical equipment and generators are now heading from all over the world to the disaster zone.
Indonesia sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the world’s most tectonically active region, and its 260 million people are vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions