Rescuers focus efforts on collapsed Indonesian hotel


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Squads of orange-clad rescue workers clambered over the tangled remains of an Indonesian hotel Sunday, hoping to dig out 50 to 60 guests still feared trapped by an earthquake-tsunami disaster.


Authorities believe the 80-room Hotel Roa-Roa in the city of Palu on Sulawesi island was near capacity when the district was ravaged by a 7.5 magnitude quake and a tsunami wave Friday.


“It is assumed there are still 50 to 60 people trapped under the rubble,” said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.



A South Korean citizen is among those believed to be stuck inside.


Rescue workers are making the hotel a focus of their efforts to save lives.


But they now face a race against time to locate and extract survivors before injuries, exhaustion or dehydration take hold.


“We even heard people calling for help there at the Roa-Roa hotel yesterday,” Muhammad Syaugi, head of the national Search and Rescue Agency, told AFP.


At least one person has been pulled out alive, he added.


A man holds a family picture from a damage house following a massive earthquake and tsunami in Palu.

Video posted by the agency on Sunday showed weary rescuers carrying one body wrapped in black plastic out on a stretcher.


Until Friday, the Roa-Roa was a modern chic hotel catering to business travellers, with views of the Makassar Strait and cloud-shrouded mountains in the distance.


It offered guests “easy access to the shopping malls, Talise Beach, market, restaurants” for around US$30 a night.


Now its Ray Eames-style designer armchairs and whitewashed surfaces are buried beneath a mangled heap of rebar, dust and concrete.


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