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Footage of Indonesian hotel collapse released

2009-10-06 12:51 BJT

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A week after the massive earthquake in Indonesia, the death toll is expected to be in the thousands once the missing people are declared dead.

The UN says 11-hundred people have been killed, while the government puts the toll at 603.

In Sumatra's biggest city, Padang, a hotel was completely destroyed. The hotel's close circuit television captured the moments. Footage shows people running and debris falling from the ceiling in several locations.

Some 200 people were in the hotel at the time. So far, search teams have found 29 bodies and no survivors.

Editor: Zhang Pengfei | Source: CCTV.com