KARANGPANGSOR, Indonesia—The death toll from last weekend’s powerful earthquake on Indonesia’s Lombok island rose to 131 on Wednesday, Aug. 8 as rescuers found more people crushed under collapsed buildings, though some still held out hope of finding survivors.
“We don’t know for sure how many people are alive under the rubble,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) told reporters in Jakarta.
