Aid arrives in Indonesian quake zone, as death toll tops 5,100

INDONESIA: Emergency aid began arriving yesterday in areas devastated by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia, but officials said supplies were not being delivered fast enough to victims who begged for help on roads lined with crumpled buildings.

The government's Social Affairs Ministry raised the official death toll by about 800 to 5,137, saying it included previously uncounted bodies buried in mass graves immediately after the quake.

The first aid plane chartered by the U.N.'s children agency arrived in the city of Solo, about three hours from the hardest-hit district of Bantul on Java island. It was loaded with water, tents, stoves and cooking sets. On Sunday, three UN trucks brought high-energy biscuits to survivors and two Singapore military cargo planes arrived with doctors and medical supplies.

But officials said relief supplies remained inadequate.

Bantul, Monday, AP