Residents fume in decimated Indonesian city as aid lags

PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Home to hundreds of families, the Balaroa neighborhood of Indonesia's Palu city was once a patchwork of asphalted streets and tidy houses dominated by a golden domed mosque. Now it looks as if it was picked up and thrown back to earth with incomprehensible force.

Four days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Palu, the devastated community of Balaroa has received no government help and anger is simmering among its residents.

A handful of disaster personnel arrived at the neighborhood Tuesday morning to survey the damage. A lone backhoe began clearing a path into the jumble of twisted buildings. An official visiting from another part of Sulawesi island said it had been "blended.