Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Tens of thousands of Indonesians left homeless by an earthquake on Java last week had to wait days for food and medicine to arrive. The runway at the region’s airport was damaged, so planes couldn’t land there, and many of the roads from other airports were impassable. Convoys from the Red Cross and World Food Program began to arrive about three days after the quake. But there still aren’t hospital beds for thousands of the injured. More than 5,000 people died in the 6.3-magnitude quake.
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