Breaking: 40 Peoples still missing as Five-year-old boy rescued after three days under Indonesia quake-hit building rubble - The People's Voice

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Breaking: 40 Peoples still missing as Five-year-old boy rescued after three days under Indonesia quake-hit building rubble


By Our Correspondent

After three days under the rubble of a collapsed building of 5.6 magnitude quake in Indonesia a five year old boy Azka was rescued alive

The death toll from the landslide in the Cianjur region in West Java province has risen to 310 and around 40 people are still missing. More than 1,000 people were injured and 58,000 displaced.

The child, who has been named in local media reports as Azka, is believed to have been discovered inside a small gap within the rubble that prevented him being crushed.

Video footage shows the moment rescue workers and firefighters pulled Azka from the rubble.

His mother and grandmother are understood to have been killed when the building collapsed in the quake on 21 November.

Video footage shows the moment rescue workers and firefighters pulled Azka from the rubble.

The head of the National Disaster Management Agency, Lt Gen Suharyanto, said around 40 people are still missing.

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