Rescue operations are on after the earthquake. National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Suharyanto said that 12,000 army personnel were deployed yesterday to increase the search operation. So far, 2,000 joint forces of police, rescue agency and volunteers have been deployed in the search operation.
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Indonesia i came 3 days ago devastating earthquake After that relief work and search operation is going on. A war-footing search operation continued in Cianjur on Wednesday as well, in which a six-year-old child was pulled out alive from the debris. However, due to heavy rains, the rescue effort was forced to stop. So far 271 people have died in the 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Siyanjur on Monday.
More rescue workers and volunteers were deployed on Wednesday to search for the dead and missing after an earthquake hit Indonesia’s main island of Java. Still many people are being reported missing, while some far-flung areas have not been reached yet. More than 2 thousand people have been injured in the 5.6 magnitude earthquake. The death toll in the accident is likely to increase.
hospital full of wounded
The hospital near the epicenter of the earthquake on the island is full of the injured. National Disaster Mitigation Agency chief Suharyanto told that 12,000 army personnel were deployed on Wednesday to increase the search operation. So far, 2,000 joint forces of police, rescue agency and volunteers have been deployed in the search operation.
Baby found alive near grandmother’s dead body
He said that rescuers recovered three more bodies on Wednesday and pulled out a six-year-old child alive from the rubble. He told that the child was found near the dead body of his grandmother under the debris of his house.
Suharyanto said that more than 58,000 people have been taken to shelters. He told that 2,043 people have been injured and 600 of them are undergoing treatment for various injuries. He told a press conference that more than 56,000 houses have been damaged in Siyanjur.
He said that more than 56,230 houses were damaged in Cianjur and more than 170 public buildings, including 31 schools, were destroyed. Children are the most affected by the earthquake. About 100 children are among the 271 people who died in the earthquake.
“We are saddened by the earthquake, especially because children are disproportionately affected,” said Yakobus Rantuwen of Wahana Visi Indonesia, a Christian humanitarian group concerned with child welfare.
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