(4 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST
Lubuk Lawe village, Padang Pariaman
1. Close-up of hands digging in the mud
2. Mid of volunteers digging in the mud with their bare hands
3. Pull focus from volunteer's hand to a dead person's hand buried in the mud
4. Tilt down from volunteers to a body buried in the mud
5. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Dasril, Volunteer:
"We are here to help these people and contribute our energy to carry out this work. This is a natural disaster and we are relying on our good intention to find these people."
6. Wide of volunteer and village resident Buyung Satu walking along exposed earth looking for missing relatives
7. Low-angle pan of Satu walking
8. Low close-up of Satu's feet walking through mud and torn up vegetation and debris
9. Satu talking to camera near a collapsed house where he believes his relatives are buried in the landslide, close pan across house
10. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Buyung Satu, resident:
"I heard the news that my relatives were buried in their own house. It was a devastating news. Since Thursday morning 7:30 am, I have come here to this place."
Jumanak village, Padang Pariaman
11. Mid of digger clearing mud and rubble
12. Close-up of foot buried in the rubble
13. Wide of digger moving rubble from ground near house
14. Close-up of onlookers covering their noses with their shirts
15. Wide of volunteers digging for bodies in the mud
16. Wide of mud and exposed earth from landslide
17. Low-angle shot of volunteers digging in mud with shovels
18. Close-up of woman with her hand over her mouth and nose
19. Mid of volunteers digging
20. Wide of woman looking across landslide area
STORYLINE:
Heavy rains hampered search teams on Sunday in the hills of western Indonesia where hundreds of people were feared buried alive in landslides triggered by a massive earthquake that wiped out four villages.
Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the hillside villages in Padang Pariaman district on the western coast of Sumatra island.
Entire hillsides in Pariaman were shaken loose, sending down a cascade of mud, rocks and trees.
Hordes of aid workers, military personnel, police and volunteers carrying heavy earth-moving equipment finally arrived on Sunday to relieve residents and volunteers who had been digging for corpses with their bare hands.
Authorities said there was little hope of finding anyone alive.
Only mud and broken palm trees were visible where the four villages once stood in Pariaman - the mountainsides appeared gouged bare as if by a
gigantic digger.
Rustam Pakaya, the head of Indonesia's Health Ministry crisis centre said the villages "were sucked 30 metres (100 feet) deep into the earth."
Dasril, a volunteer in Lubuk Lawe village, one of the hardest hit, said relatives were "relying on our good intention to find these people."
Nearby, 63-year-old village resident Buyung Satu said he had been looking for five of his relatives buried in their house by the landslide.
"I heard the news that my relatives were buried in their own house. It was a devastating news," he said.
Search and rescue operations were also underway in Jumanak village, where some 200-300 wedding guests at a restaurant were buried alive, including the bride, her 15-year-old brother, officials said.
The adjacent villages of Pulau Aiya and Limo Koto Timur were also swept away.
By mid-afternoon on Sunday, a heavy downpour lashed the area, raising fears of a fresh landslide.
The police ordered everybody to evacuate.
The villages were accessible only by foot as landslides cut off all roads.
The United Nations put the toll at 1,100.
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