Delight as orphan is found in tsunami debris

The 18-month-old boy was found in a clump of trees on Pagai Selatan island. Both his parents were confirmed dead.

The discovery yesterday was one of the few bright spots after the tsunami flattened villages and displaced tens of thousands of people when it hit on Monday.

The death toll rose above 350 yesterday with hundreds more missing, feared dead.

On the other side of the country the volcano that killed 33 people earlier this week began erupting again. About 36,000 people have been evacuated, according to the Indonesian Red Cross. The twin catastrophes struck within 24 hours. Islanders dug graves and slung plastic sheets to sleep under in one of the hardest-hit areas, where a 10ft wave had swept houses off their foundations and deposited the shattered remains in the jungle.

Many who fled to the hills are refusing to return home, fearing a second tsunami. Search and rescue teams – kept away for days by stormy seas and bad weather – found roads and beaches with swollen corpses lying on them.

Officials said a multimillion-dollar warning system installed after the monster 2004 quake and tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean, broke down a month ago because it was not being properly maintained. The chief of Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysic Agency, Fauzi, said special buoys that detect changes in water level broke down last month because of inexperienced operators and poor maintenance. But Joern Lauterjung, head of the German-Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning Project, said a warning did go out five minutes after the quake – but the tsunami hit so fast no one was warned in time.