A strong aftershock has rattled the Indonesiana island of Lombok, where tens of thousands of people are homeless after a powerful earthquake struck on Sunday.
Witnesses said people ran out of the roads in panic and some buildings collapsed.
Indonesia’s geological agency said the quake had a magnitude of 6.2 and was shallow, with a depth of 12km, centred on the northwest of the island.
It said it did not have the potential to cause a tsunami.
“Evacuees and people ran out of houses when they felt the strong shake of the 6.2 magnitude quake .... People are still traumatised. Some buildings were damaged further because of this quake,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency, said on Twitter.
The US Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.9.
It was the third big quake to hit Lombok in little over a week.
Buildings still standing on the island have been weakened after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sunday and a 6.4 quake on 29 July.
The official death toll from Sunday’s quake stood at 131 on Wednesday, but a government-run news agency put the figure at 347.
Thousands have been left homeless on Lombok and in desperate need of clean water, food, medicine and shelter.
Officials said about three-quarters of Lombok’s rural north had been without electricity since Sunday, although power had since been restored in most areas.
Aid workers have found some hamlets hard to reach because bridges and roads were torn up by the disaster.
The Indonesian Red Cross said it was focusing its relief efforts on an estimated 20,000 people in remote areas in the north of the island which has still not been reached by aid.
Spokesman Arifin Hadi said tens of thousands people left homeless by Sunday’s quake need clean water and tarpaulins most of all.
He said the agency has sent 20 water vehicles to five remote areas, including one village of about 1,200 households.
Thousands of tourists have left Lombok since Sunday, fearing further earthquakes, some on extra flights provided by airlines and others on ferries to the neighbouring island of Bali.
Additional reporting by agencies
