Indonesia Calls Off Search For Missing Survivors (ap)

An Indonesian villager walks on a felled palm tree as she surveys an area severely hit by landslides during last Wednesday's earthquake in the Sumatran Island  village of Jumanak, in Padang Pariaman, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Officials said hundreds of people were buried and presumed dead in the hillside villages in Padang Pariaman district on the western coast of Sumatra island following the 7.6 magnitude earthquake last week. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP – Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivors in the towns and hills of western Indonesia, despite being hampered by torrential rains.

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