Search effort intensifies after Indonesia quake kills 271

The death toll is likely to rise.

(Rangga Firmansyah/AP)

By Andi Jatmiko, Associated Press

More rescuers and volunteers have been deployed in devastated areas on Indonesia’s main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 271 people.

With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 2,000 people injured in the 5.6 magnitude quake, the death toll is likely to rise.