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October 12, 2009
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Padang. After a nine-day break, classes in the earthquake-devastated city of Padang, West Sumatra, resumed on Monday with reports saying about 80 percent of students were in attendance.
Musdek, a spokesman for the local education office, said the 7.6-magnitude quake on Sept. 30 destroyed 1,108 classrooms and supporting facilities such as toilets and libraries across Padang, but most schools in the city were able to welcome students on Monday.
“Now we are concerned that schoolchildren will have various illnesses as a result of the quake’s impact,” he said, adding that assistance was urgently needed to reopen schools in other quake-affected areas of the province.
The massive earthquake, centered northwest of the West Sumatra capital, claimed more than 800 lives and left thousands of people homeless.
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