Storms crippling tsunami aid to Indonesia islands
MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia-A group of private aid workers battled fierce swells and driving rain that kept most craft on shore, managing to deliver food and other supplies to desperate survivors on the islands hardest hit by a tsunami that killed at least 413 people. Hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the east, a volcano that has claimed 36 lives in recent days erupted again early Saturday, temporarily forcing shut an airport. Plumes of heavy gray ash poured from the crater’s mouth as rocks and debris cascaded down its slopes. The twin catastrophes, striking on different ends of the seismically active country this week, have severely tested Indonesia’s emergency response network. Government…
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