Death toll from Indonesian disasters tops 400

Tsunami survivors weep on the tsunami-ravaged Pagai island, in Mentawai… Tsunami survivors make their way past damaged houses after their village… Tsunami survivors make their way past damaged houses after their village… MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia (AP) – The fisherman was jolted awake by the powerful earthquake and ran with his screaming neighbors to high ground. He said they watched as the sea first receded and then came roaring back “like a big wall” that swept away their entire village. “Suddenly trees, houses and all things in the village were sucked into the sea and nothing was left,” Joni Sageru recalled Thursday in one of the first survivor accounts of this week’s tsunami that…

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Death toll from Indonesian disasters tops 400

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