.. with devastatingly different outcomes

BY STEPHEN STEWART THESE two faces show the desperation and raw emotion of those caught up in the Indonesia tsunami’s aftermath.

Survivor Azwan Prasasti beamed with joy as he hugged his wife Dewi in front of their house after their area was devastated by Friday’s disaster, which killed more than 1300 people.

He searched for two days through makeshift morgues and hospitals before he found her alive after she had been swept away by the tidal wave that engulfed the city of Palu.

Ahmad Ibrahim endured a similar heart-wrenching effort to find his wife Fahria – but with devastating results.

He broke down after finding her among bodies lined up in a temporary mortuary outside the city’s Undata hospital.

Disaster response officials said that the death toll has risen to 1347.

The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that engulfed coastal Palu.

Police are guarding shops against looters as people search for food, fuel and water.

Officers initially took a lenient approach to survivors seizing basic goods, deputy national police chief Ari Dono Sukmanto said, but some people have since been arrested for stealing computers and cash.

He said: “After day two, the food supply started to come in, it only needed to be distributed. We are now re-enforcing the law.”

Aid and supplies were being sent in via military and commercial aircraft, said officials, who added that the area was lacking medicine, fuel, fresh water and relief experts.