The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the Indonesian island of Lombok is said to have reached around 100,... but officials fear the number could rise even further. <br />Ro Aram has the latest.<br /> <br /> Local authorities said Monday that the death toll from the previous day's 6.9-magnitude earthquake climbed to at least 98, with more than two hundred others injured.<br />Other reports claim the figure is more than 140.<br />Most of the deaths were caused by falling debris from crumbling buildings.<br />Search and rescue operations are still underway, but there are areas which rescuers have not been able to reach yet so there is a chance the death toll could climb. <br /> Since the quake, there have been more than 120 aftershocks, some of them felt some one-hundred kilometers away in Bali.<br />Sunday's quake was the second to hit Lombok in just a week.<br /> More than twenty-thousand locals have lost their homes and the Indonesian military has sent humanitarian aid to help with the evacuation.<br />Ro Aram, Arirang News. <br />
