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SINGAPORE \u2013 Prime Minister Lawrence Wong\u00a0has written to Indonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto\u00a0to express his condolences after an earthquake struck off the coast of Flores in eastern Indonesia on Aug 15,<\/span><\/a> killing dozens and damaging hundreds of buildings.<\/p>\n A second earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck off Indonesia\u2019s northern Sumatra hours after the initial quake, with no casualties yet reported.<\/p>\n In a Facebook post on\u00a0Aug 16, PM Wong said he was saddened by the loss of lives and devastation caused by the earthquakes.<\/p>\n He extended his heartfelt condolences and sympathies, on behalf of the Singapore Government, to the families of the victims and those affected by the tragedy.<\/p>\n \u201cOur thoughts are with the people of Indonesia during this difficult time, and with the authorities and emergency personnel working tirelessly on relief and recovery efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a07.7-magnitude earthquake on Flores Island killed 53 people, injured at least 135 and damaged hundreds of houses and buildings, the Indonesian authorities said on Aug 16.<\/p>\n Some 5,000 people fled their homes as the quake hit the island early on <\/span><\/a>Aug 15<\/span><\/a>, followed by nearly 1,000 aftershocks in the hours after, a spokesman for the country\u2019s national disaster agency said.<\/p>\n Rescue officials said survivors were in urgent need of aid, including emergency tents, food, medicine, clean water and electricity generators, as at Aug 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Prime Minister Lawrence Wong\u00a0has written to Indonesia\u2019s President Prabowo Subianto\u00a0to express his condolences after an earthquake struck off the coast of Flores in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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