Indonesian rescuers used jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands to shift the rubble of flattened buildings as they searched for the dead and missing from an earthquake. The 5.6 magnitude quake has killed at least 268 people. With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 1,000 people injured, the death toll was likely to rise. Hospitals near the epicenter on the densely populated island of Java were already overwhelmed. Patients hooked up to IV drips lay on stretchers and cots in tents set up outside.
A joint search and rescue team, on Thursday, continued its efforts to look for 40 people, who are still missing following an earthquake that hit Cianjur .
For three days and two nights, a 6-year-old boy, Azka Maulana Malik, remained trapped in the ruins of his home following the 5.6-magnitude earthquake in .
Indonesian rescuers used jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands to shift the rubble of flattened buildings as they searched for the dead and missing from an earthquake. The