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Taken from AOL news:

A grim search for survivors is under earthquake in South East Asia.

Up to 2,000 people are feared to have been killed when the impoverished people of Nias were ravaged by the brutal power of nature for the second time in just a few months.

The community of coconut farmers and fishermen, which has also been described as a surfers' paradise, was thought to be the area worst hit by the disaster.

Relief workers have arrived on the Indonesian island to begin an urgent assessment of the damage caused by the 8.7-magnitude quake.

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The disaster follows the Boxing Day tsunami, which killed at least 174,000 people in 11 countries and left 1.5 million homeless.

But fears soon faded that the latest quake would cause carnage on the same scale, although estimates suggest it may have killed up to 2,000.

Indonesian authorities said 330 bodies have already been found in the rubble in Nias with the toll expected to rise as more are discovered under collapsed buildings.

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Four Swedish tourists were reported to be missing on the island.

Oxfam staff are today in the main town of Gunungsitoli, which appeared to have been one of the worst-hit areas.

Alessandra Villas-Boas, a member of the team, said: "Bodies are being pulled from the rubble as I speak."

Aid workers said 20,000 people had been left without water after the collapse of the electricity grid shut down pumping stations.

One mosque in the town was being used as a morgue and temporary shelter and 34 bodies had already been brought there.

The town's roads had also collapsed making transport by car impossible and there were also reports of food shortages.

Christian Aid has pledged to increase its aid funding to the region. Its local partner organisations were currently concentrating on providing food, water, medical services and shelter to islanders.

Action for Churches Together estimated that between 500 and 1,000 buildings had been damaged or destroyed in Gunungsitoli.

Communications and infrastructure have been severely affected and the Nias airstrip was destroyed, with small aircraft having to land on a wide road.

way on a small island devastated by a new

Bloody hell.....

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