The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami that devastated part of the island of Sulawesi has risen to 1,203 with the total number expected to climb higher still.

The tsunami, which was triggered after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, ripped through the Pacific Ring of Fire and crashed into the city of Palu at 500mph, causing widespread destruction into the evening on Friday.

Figures collected by the National Police Headquarters put the number killed at 1,203 people.

The death toll is expected to climb even higher.

Search and rescue team have struggled to reach cut-off communities feared wiped out by the disaster.

As many as 200 people are feared buried under the debris of just one residential complex in the Palu, which has also been hit by deadly 'liquefaction' of the ground where tremors turn layers of sand and soil in to mush creating a sink hole effect.




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Overhead images show the scale of the devastation around the city of Palu in central Sulawesi after it was smashed by a tsunami


Rescue personnel carry the body of an earthquake victim to the compounds of a police hospital in Palu

Relatives look for tsunami and earthquake victims in body bags at a police station, in the aftermath of earthquake in Palu.\







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This is really a disaster RIP to the Dead

A mass grave for more than a thousand earthquake and tsunami victims has been prepared in Indonesia as a desperate hunt for survivors continued today.

Sand is placed over dead bodies of the victims of the earthquake and tsunami during a mass burial at the Poboya Cemetery in Palu, Central Sulawesi.

Following

Rescuers try to rescue earthquake victims following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu on Sunday

Footage captured using a drone shows the extent of the damage to Petobo Village (pictured) in Palu.

Striking aerial shots show a mosque which has been razed first by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and then the 2 meter high wave on Friday afternoon.

A road traffic bridge could be seen completely collapsed along the coastline in the outskirts of Palu as first the earthquake and then the tsunami swept away enormous pieces of the city's infrastructure.

Pictures captured by a drone show a totally destroyed mosque.

A man takes a photo of a car left jammed in the side of a building following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia.


Houses and vehicles damaged by earthquake and tsunami are seen on Talise beach area, Palu, Central Sulawesi.

People scrambled onto rooftops of nearby buildings in order to avoid the rising waters of the tsunami.

God have mercy..in Nigeria our government is our main natural disasters.

Roads were left in crumpled ruins by the power of the earthquake on Friday.

Cars were left in ruins after the tsunami crushed everything in its path on Friday. This was the scene at a garage in Talise Beach.

A ship is seen stranded on the shore after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area in Wani, Donggala, Central Sulawesi.

Indonesian Air Force members stand in line as they prepare to board a military plane on its way to join emergency efforts in the coastal disaster area.

Indonesians wait in line in the hope of being evacuated on military planes at an airport in Palu.


Indonesian workers load donations into a military transport aircraft as those in affected areas are lacking the most basic necessities to survive.

dis is huge

RIP to the dead

People take gasoline from a truck as the bare essentials are shipped in to the worst affected areas around the city of Palu on Sulawesi island.

Looters took the opportunity to raid shopping malls badly damaged by the massive earthquake.

Two men push a shopping trolley filled with goods away from the carcass of a destroyed shopping mall as people with motorbikes lined up in the streets to take away the looted goods on Sunday


A man in a Christmas hat his pictured carrying a huge stolen television on the back of a motorbike

Jesus! This our country get luck oh.

Motorists pass by a half-collapsed shopping mall heavily damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami as darkness falls on Palu on Sunday.

A ship is seen stranded between homes.


Trapped truck.

More.

this bad

The end we all fear is here...May the dead rest in peace...

RIP to the dead

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I can only imagine what happened there. The mpape quake warning comes to mind cause I personally experienced it and I can tell you that it's not a good feeling. If this shvit could happen here, let it start and end in Aso rock.

Inna elayi wahena ileyi rajihun

1,200 living souls and still counting..... this my 5th time of backspacing, I don't just know what to say. RIP do the dead but on a serious note, no one can rest in peace with the horrific scene I'm seeing

Nigeria we are really lucky

This is really sad,thank God dis kind of things dnt realy happen hre,join with d leaders we have,only God kns Nigeria would av ceased to exist




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Mheeennn! They are not different from Nigeria. Dem also get looters wey dey take advantage of a deadly and devastating situation like this. Smh! Thank God for averagely better climate over here. My sincere condolences to them. Only God can console them cos that is a huge loss. Family, properties etc.

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pleasureosondu:
I can only imagine what happened there. The mpape quake warning comes to mind cause I personally experienced it and I can tell you that it's not a good feeling. If this shvit could happen here, let it start and end in from Aso rock.

After making sense you ended it without sense.

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This is one thing you should appreciate coming from this part of the world...
Although, our corrupt leaders making life hard for us

This is nerve wrecking, mother nature indeed possesses unstoppable force, the shear scale of the destruction is mind boggling.

RIP to the dead

I know the Indonesian government are serious minded people, they'll rebuild their cities in no distant time unlike a certain country where Boko haram has rendered a particular section of that particular country inhabitable for upward of 10years

but why authorities still allow people to build on earthquake prone areas