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A 6-year-old boy has been pulled from the debris of the5.6-magnitude earthquakethat hit Indonesia over two days earlier.
On Wednesday, rescuers found Azka Maulana Malik under rubble in the village of Nagrak, located in the highly impacted Cianjur regency of West Java, according toCNN.
Just following the disaster, Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) estimated that over 60 people had been killed in the earthquake.
On Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Suharyanto, who heads the BNPB, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the death toll has been raised to over 271, CNN reports. Suharyanto added that more than one-third of the confirmed victims were children.
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During the press conference, Suharyanto said that over 2,000 people sustained injuries and over 61,000 had been displaced. Additionally, 56,320 houses were damaged.
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Geographically, Indonesia and its population of over 276 million are particularly vulnerable to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes based on its location in the “Ring of Fire,” as the arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin has come to be known.
source: people.com
