Aid for survivors flowed in today to survivors of deadly earthquakes in Indonesia's West Sumatra province as rescue teams helped residents clear debris from collapsed houses and the death toll reached 85. West Sumatra's disaster management agency said 85 people were killed by Tuesday's two quakes, which were also felt in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, but hundreds more were injured and thousands spent a night in open fields, frightened that further tremors would hit. The two quakes measured 6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale. In Bukit Tinggi district, rescue workers searched for an unknown number of missing persons buried alive by landslides in Ngarai Sianok village, officials said. "We still don't know exactly how many people are still missing in the landslides," said Djufri, the Bukit Tinggi mayor. "Search operations are still underway." In addition to killing at least 85 people, the quakes also left more than 340 others injured, and destroyed or heavily damaged over 500 homes and other buildings in West Sumatra's seven regencies, Amran, an official at the disaster management agency, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. -- SPA
