First Published: Oct 02, 2018 12:21 IST Satellite images show wiped out area in Indonesia’s Palu; toll now 1,234 Nearly 60,000 people have been displaced and are in need of emergency help, while thousands have been streaming out of stricken areas of disaster-hit Indonesia. The extent of the devastation caused by an earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi should become clearer on Tuesday as rescuers push into remote areas that have been out of contact for more than three days. Officials fear the death toll will rise into the thousands but the number of confirmed deaths stood at 1,234 on Tuesday, most of them in the small city of Palu, 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of Jakarta. Some of the dead were taken to a mass grave on Tuesday while rescuers hunting for victims in the ruins held out hope they could still save lives. “We suspect there are still some survivors trapped inside,” the head of on rescue team, Agus Haryono, told Reuters at the collapsed seven-
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