INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A six-year-old boy was rescued on Wednesday night from the rubble of Monday&s deadly earthquake in Indonesia in what has been described as a
miracle rescue.The boy, who was trapped under rubble without food or water, was pulled out alive by emotional rescue workers.&Once we
realized Azka was alive everybody broke into tears, including me,& 28-year-old local volunteer Jeksen told AFP on Thursday.&It was very
moving, it felt like a miracle.&Video showed rescue workers pulling the boy Azka free from a destroyed home in Cianjur&s worst-hit district
of Cugenang, wearing the blue shirt and trousers he had on when he became trapped.The man who pulled him out of a hole cut in the debris
clasped him in both arms, as another rescue worker in an orange hard hat ran after them to hold the boy&s hand, footage released by the
administration of West Java&s Bogor district showed.Azka — who like many Indonesians goes by one name — was then shown calmly sipping a
drink, held by a soldier as another emergency worker stroked his hair.His mother died in the earthquake and her body was found hours before
Azka&s rescue, a volunteer told AFP on Thursday.The boy was then found next to his dead grandmother, Jeksen said.&We didn&t expect him to
still be alive after 48 hours, if we knew we would have tried harder the night before,& he said.&For all the years since I became a
volunteer, I&ve never seen anything like this
How can you not cry?&At least 271 people died in Monday&s quake and authorities have warned that time is running out to find
survivors.&Today for the search and rescue operation we deployed 6,000 people
It was raining but we keep searching,& said Suharyanto, head of the national disaster mitigation agency, or BNPB.&Please pray for us so the
40 missing people could be found.&Authorities are continuing to search for dozens who remain buried under debris, including a missing
seven-year-old girl.The post Indonesian child rescued from earthquake rubble after two days first appeared on Ariana News.
