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A road damaged by the earthquake in Nias island, Indonesia.
ROME, MARCH 29. A priest has described scenes of death, devastation and widespread ruin on the quake-hit island of Nias, Indonesia and backed up estimates that more than 1,000 may have died there, the Misna news agency reported here on Tuesday. ``I have been all around town and it's simply devastated. Every building more than one storey high has collapsed and even the traditional houses are in a state of ruin,'' said an Indonesian priest, Raymond Laia, from the island's main town of Gunung Sitoli (population 20,000). ``There were 48 bodies lined up outside the church,'' he said. ``I couldn't begin to estimate how many victims there were. I can only speak of the ones I've seen. But credible local sources are saying more than a thousand have died,'' he added. Earlier estimates from the Red Cross and Presidential envoy T.B Silalahi both said around one third of the town of Gunung Sitoli had been destroyed by the quake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale. A team from Oxfam International also reported widespread damage. The undersea quake struck late on Monday about 200 km off the west coast of Sumatra and prompted Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, among others, to issue warnings of imminent tsunamis. While the giant tsunami never materialised, the earthquake caused widespread destruction on Nias, which is still rebuilding after the December 26 disaster. — AFP
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