The army chief in Indonesia's Aceh province says the death toll in Wednesday's earthquake has jumped to 97 from 54 as rescuers pull more bodies from the rubble, ABC News reported.

Maj. Gen. Tatang Sulaiman says in a live television interview that four people were pulled from the rubble alive and believes there could be another four or five still buried. He didn't say whether they were alive or not.

He says: "Hopefully we would be able to finish the evacuation from the rubble before sunset."

Source: MENA