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08-07-2018, 11:37 AM
http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EoJ2LRyuZTm4HvvYFoJ27Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0d0c9305fa0c05233c867aeebc59ee60005324c0.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-200-tourists-being-evacuated-indonesia-quake-islands-062851737.html)More than one thousand tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia's tiny Gili islands on Monday after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds. The Gilis are three coral-fringed tropical islands popular with backpackers and divers, a few kilometres off the northwest coast of the larger Lombok island. Footage posted online by rescue officials showed hundreds of panicked tourists and locals crowded onto powder-white beaches desperately waiting for transport off the normally paradise islands.



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