Ruteng, Indonesia ¨C Help started arriving Sunday for thousands of evacuees on Indonesia¡¯s Flores island after a powerful earthquake killed 48 people, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses and buildings.
Some 5,000 people fled their homes as the 7.7 magnitude quake hit the island early Saturday, followed by at least 341 aftershocks in the hours that followed, a spokesman for the BNPB national disaster agency, Berton Suar Pelita Panjaitan, said.
People in some areas were left without electricity and telecommunications and at least one emergency access road remained inaccessible.
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