Reuters reports that scenes of destruction greeted rescue workers across Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok on Monday. This after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 killed at least 98 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful quake in a week.
According to The National Disaster Mitigation Agency, the death toll is expected to rise once the rubble of more than 13,000 flattened and damaged houses was cleared away.
Power and communications were severed in some areas.
