Soldiers dig for boy buried in landslide

Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud today, searching for an eight-year-old boy who was buried when a powerful earthquake killed 52 people in western Indonesia.

Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud today, searching for an eight-year-old boy who was buried when a powerful earthquake killed 52 people in western Indonesia.

Elsewhere, markets reopened in towns on Sumatra island hit by the magnitude-6.3 quake and a strong aftershock. Many people remained too traumatised to return home while others complained of receiving no emergency aid.

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