Dying of cancer, but Indonesia’s disaster spokesman battles to tell world about quake-tsunami

October 04, 2018 2:14 PM

JAKARTA (AFP) – Indonesia’s disaster agency spokesman is fighting a daily battle to update the world 24/7 on the latest developments in a deadly quake-tsunami, despite his own impending date with death from terminal cancer.

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