Indonesian earthquakes death toll expected to hit thousands

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by Mail Foreign Service

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Thousands of people are feared to have died after two powerful earthquakes rocked Indonesia.

Rescuers were frantically searching for survivors in the rubble caused by the two quakes in the province of Sumatra today - as, far to the west on the Pacific islands of Samoa, stunned residents were battling heat and floods to pull the bloated bodies of tsunami victims from the water.

The devastating quakes came just hours after the powerful tsunami smashed into the Pacific islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.