Quake toll jumps as survivors grow more desperate

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The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the central Indonesian Island of Sulawesi jumped to more than 1,200 today as disaster officials began reaching coastal areas that were cut off by blocked roads and downed communications lines.rnOfficials said that hundreds of other people were severely Injured, and that scores of bodies could still be buried under quicksand-like mud caused by Friday's magnitude 7.5 earthquake.