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Rescuers search for quake survivors

Rescuers are battling to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck close to Padang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday. A second quake of 6.8 magnitude struck a day later.

At least 529 people are now known to have died, the government has said.

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