PADANG, Indonesia (AP) -- Helicopters dropped instant noodles and other aid to cutoff hillside communities that were without food for five days, as rescue workers gave up their search Monday for survivors from last week's massive Indonesian earthquake. When all the bodies are counted and the missing declared dead, the death toll from Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake in Sumatra island is expected to be in the thousands. The official toll currently is 609. (22 images)
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An elderly woman walks past a stall lit by a kerosene lamp as electricity in parts of the city is still not restored on Monday, Oct. 5, in Padang, Indonesia, five days after Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake that toppled thousands of buildings on Sumatra island. AP / Wong Maye-E
An Indonesian woman named Fitriyanti, right, watches over her daughter Neli as she recuperates in a makeshift tent hospital at the M. Djamil hospital in Padang on Oct. 5, after she was injured in recent earthquake. AFP / Getty Images / Manan Vatsyayana
Indonesian army and rescue team search a body victim hit by a quake-triggered landslide in Jumanak in Padang Pariaman district, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 5. Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivors in the towns and hills of western Indonesia, despite being hampered by torrential rains. AP / Achmad Ibrahim
Rescue workers remove debris as they attempt to free a dead body from houses consumed by an earthquake induced landslide on Oct. 4, in the village of Jumanak near Pariaman, Indonesia. Getty Images / Daniel Berehulak
A boy crawls under overhanging rocks from what used to be a market on Sunday Oct. 4, in Padang, Indonesia. With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake obliterated four hamlets in western Indonesia. AP / Binsar Bakkara
A women who was injured in last Wednesday's earthquake, lays in a makeshift hospital, in the Sumatran Island city of Padang, Indonesia,Sunday, Oct 4. AP / Achmad Ibrahim
A man prays in front of a statue of Mary and Baby Jesus in a Catholic church which was affected by the earthquake on Sunday Oct. 4, in Padang, Indonesia. AP / Binsar Bakkara
Indonesian villagers cover their faces as rescue volunteers retrieve bodies from the ground in an area severely hit by landslides following last Wednesday's earthquake in the Sumatran Island village of Jumanak, in Padang Pariaman, Sunday, Oct. 4. AP / Kevin Frayer
Damaged houses are seen in this aerial shot of an area badly affected by earthquake-triggered landslides in an isolated Limo Koto Timur village, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 4. AP / Dita Alangkara
Villagers flee from their homes in the village of Cumanak near Pariaman outside the city of Padang on Oct. 4. Heavy rain across Indonesia's earthquake disaster zone hampered relief efforts on Oct. 5 as health officials sought to contain the risk of disease caused by the thousands of buried bodies. AFP / Getty Images / Juansep
Rescuer workers search through the remnants of the Ambacang hotel in the Sumatran city of Padang on Oct. 4, after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings and cuts the main electricity supply in the area late on Sept. 30. AFP / Getty Images / Roslan Rahman
Hands protrude from rubble as rescue efforts continue on Oct. 3, in Padang, Indonesia. Getty Images / Daniel Berehulak
Indonesian boy Mohammed Ansri, 2, who was injured in last Wednesday's earthquake, shouts in pain as he lays in a makeshift hospital in the Sumatran Island city of Padang, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 3. AP / Kevin Frayer
Indonesian patients who were injured in last Wednesday's earthquake, are seen in a tent at a makeshift hospital, in the Sumatran Island city of Padang, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 3. AP / Kevin Frayer
Residents take shelter in a river on Saturday, Oct. 3, in Padang, Indonesia. AP / Dita Alangkara
Indonesian soldiers and rescue workers try to remove bodies trapped in the Ambacang Hotel Saturday, Oct. 3, in Padang, Indonesia, three days after Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake that toppled thousands of buildings on Sumatra island. AP / Achmad Ibrahim
Members of a Swiss rescue team rest as they evacuate victims from a collapsed hotel building in the Sumatran city of Padang on Oct. 3. AFP / Getty Images / Bay Ismoyo
Indonesian search and rescue team members carry the body of an earthquake victim during an evacuation at the village of Tandikat in Pariaman on Oct. 3. AFP / Getty Images / Juansep
Indonesian rescue workers walk on a damaged building still smoldering from Wednesday's earthquake, in the Sumatran Island city of Pedang, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2. AP / Kevin Frayer
An Indonesian woman reacts after identifying the remains of a relative at a hospital in the Sumatran Island city of Pedang, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2. AP / Kevin Frayer
An Indonesian covers his nose from the smell as soldiers guard an area where bodies are kept after being pulled from the rubble at a hospital in the Sumatran Island city of Pedang, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2.AP / Kevin Frayer
Ratna Kurnia Sari, an Indonesian woman, is rescued out from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang on Oct. 2, after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the area late on Sept. 30. AFP / Getty Images / Roslan Rahman
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