Search efforts up after Indonesia quake toll rises

CIANJUR, Indonesia: More rescuers and volunteers were deployed on Wednesday in devastated areas on Indonesia's main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 271 people.

With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 1,000 people injured in the 5.6-magnitude quake, the death toll was likely to rise. Hospitals near the epicenter of the densely populated island were already overwhelmed, and patients hooked up to intravenous drips lay on stretchers and cots in tents set up outside, awaiting further treatment.