3. Help and heavy equipment were on the way to try to rescue those still trapped in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami that rocked part of Indonesia’s island of Sulawesi last Friday. But a spokesman for the country’s disaster management agency said time was running out to find anyone alive.

Officials increased the death toll to at least 1,234. Many others, still uncounted, were caught in the rubble of ruined buildings or swept away by the tsunami.

“I’m broken,” a woman cried as she buried her teenage son, who had been struck by falling debris near his school.

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