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Indonesian Government officials are trying to coordinate a massive relief effort for residents and tourists on the island of Lombok, with the death toll from Sunday's earthquake standing at 98, and many more missing.
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Authorities expect death toll to rise
Magnitude-5.2 quake hits Lombok on Monday evening
Makeshift hospitals set up to deal with hundreds of injured people
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said it expected the death toll to rise once the rubble of more than 13,000 houses felled by two powerful quakes in the space of a week was cleared.
The island was further rattled by a magnitude-5.2 earthquake last night.
Power and communications have been cut in some areas, hampering the search for missing people, with landslides and a collapsed bridge blocking access to areas around the epicentre in the north.
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Indonesia's military said it would send a ship with medical aid, supplies and logistics support. More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from the island.
Hundreds of Australians remain on Lombok but there have been no reports of any of them being killed or injured, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said this morning.
Tourists still stuck on holiday island, villages flattened on Lombok
Several hundred foreigners spent a second night with no electricity or water on the Gili Islands, off the north-west coast of Lombok, after rescue boats ran out of fuel.
Officials said more than 2,000 people had been evacuated from the three Gili islands.
Michelle Thompson, an American holidaying on one of the Gilis, described a scramble to get on boats leaving for the main island during which her husband was injured.
"People were just throwing their suitcases on board and I had to struggle to get my husband on, because he was bleeding," she said.
On Lombok itself, whole villages have been flattened.
BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said emergency units in its hospitals were overflowing and some patients were being treated in parking lots.
The main hospital in the town of Tanjung in the north was severely damaged, so staff set up about 30 beds in the shade of trees and in a tent on a field.
Australian aid handed to the Red Cross
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Ms Bishop said some Australian holidaymakers on the Gili islands were choosing to stay if their accommodation had not been damaged.
She said DFAT officials were based at the Aruna hotel at Senggigi, in the northern part of Lombok as well as at the Lombok airport.
Ms Bishop said Australian supplies including tents, lighting, food and water that were stored in Java in case of natural disasters like earthquakes had been given to the Indonesian Red Cross to distribute.
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