QUAKE-HIT INDONESIANS OFFER PRAYERS OUTDOORS
Hundreds of Indonesians prayed in the open next to rice paddies and in the streets yesterday, as the death toll from an earthquake that flattened their town in western Java rose to 310. Hundreds of aftershocks have rattled the mountainous region, where grieving and traumatised residents are sheltering in tents, awaiting supplies of food, water, and medicines that have been slowed by heavy rains and landslides.