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Death toll touches 400 in Indonesia after a powerful 7.5 earthquake

Cities Palu and Donggala, home to over 600,000 inhabitants, reduced to a rubble

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Rescue workers were hunting for survivors on Saturday after earthquakes, including a powerful 7.5 magnitude tremor, and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, killing at least 385 people. The death toll was expected to rise amid continuing aftershocks, officials said.

Three hundred and eighty five people died in the city of Palu, where preparations for a beach festival had been underway when the tsunami struck. National Agency for Disaster Management spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said that 29 were still missing.

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