As rescue workers searched for survivors in the wreckage of a four-story school Thursday, Mira Utami’s mother clawed away, too — looking for the shoes missing from her daughter’s body. Mira was taking a high school English final when the quake hit, flattening the school in seconds and killing her a week before her 16th birthday.
Indonesian Quake Toll At 1,100, Thousands Missing
September 30, 2009