A 6-year-old boy was rescued alive two days after being trapped in the rubble of an earthquake in Indonesia.
More than 50,000 houses have been damaged, with more than a thousand houses collapsing after a powerful earthquake hit the Cianjur region of West Java province on Monday.
Of this, 271 people have died, and more than 2,000 people have been rescued from the rubble and admitted to hospital for treatment.
Also, the rescue forces are continuing to search for 150 people who have gone missing for the past two days.
In this case, a 6-year-old boy named Aska Maulana Malik was recovered alive from under the corpse when the rescuers recovered the body trapped in the rubble in the village of Nagrak on Wednesday evening.
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The incident of the recovery of the boy who was alive under the corpse of his grandmother without food and water for two days has caused happiness in the area.
While the boy is being treated at the hospital, rescuers are continuing their search in the hope that more people may be alive.