Thousands of survivors of the Indonesian earthquake held their first Friday prayers since the disaster after looters raided aid convoys bringing food and medicines to stranded victims.
"We want to make peace inside by praying and being closer to God," said local merchant Iskak, 40, at a mosque in the village of Giwangan, on the southern outskirts of Yogyakarta, the main city in the quake zone.
"The earthquake is because God would like to give a warning to people, that it is the fault of humankind," he said.
Others prayed under makeshift canopies in hard-hit Bantul district south of the city, as their mosques had been destroyed in the disaster.
As the call to prayer sounded across Central Java, many survivors who had spent six nights in the open were still awaiting help as trucks loaded with badly needed supplies were ambushed en route, a disaster relief official said.
The official from the government's National Coordinating Board for Disaster Management said increasingly impatient Indonesians were resorting to "stupid acts" in the wake of last Saturday's 6.3-magnitude quake.
"If there are trucks with only civilians guarding them, then they will stop and extort bags of rice and boxes of noodles," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Most of the looting incidents have taken place in Bantul, according to reports from convoy drivers and residents, the official said.
"People are not getting the goods because they never arrive," he said.
"Right now it's the people who are living near the roads who are getting all the goods. Once you go inside the villages, inside the small roads, there are places that have nothing," he said.
At least 6,234 people were killed, 46,000 injured and more than 139,000 homes destroyed in the temblor, which devastated large swathes of Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces.
The UN said aid was moving more freely, but that the threat of infection was growing because of overcrowding in hospitals.
"I believe the figures for the casualties are stabilizing at around 6,000 killed," Charlie Higgins, who is heading UN relief efforts on the ground, told a press briefing.
"It's particularly the injured and the homeless that we are concerned with," he said.
Georg Petersen, the WHO country representative in Indonesia, warned that overcrowding in area hospitals and the threat of infection and disease remained serious.
"The risk of infectious diseases has increased and there needs to be a surveillance system in place and a reporting system," Petersen said.
As hospital wards spilled over with patients, another 300 survivors in hard-hit Klaten district were admitted with food poisoning after eating rice meals donated by an unidentified man, the state Antara news agency reported.
Across the quake zone traumatized students trudged back to school in places where they were operating, but authorities said more than 1,200 schools had been too badly damaged to open.
"Whatever the disaster is like, education should never stop. So we're trying our best in this emergency situation to keep the schools running," said Sugito, who heads the education office for Yogyakarta Province.
"The most urgent thing we have to do is deal with the trauma among teachers as well as students," he said in an interview.
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