Indonesian rescuers focus on landslide site as quake toll rises

A man carries his injured daughter as they head to a temporary shelter for those displaced by Monday’s earthquake in Cianjur, West Java (AP)

Indonesian rescuers have narrowed their focus to the site of a landslide where dozens of people were believed trapped after an earthquake killed at least 272, more than a third of them children.

Many of the more than 1,000 rescuers were using diggers and sniffer dogs as well as their bare hands to search the worst-hit area of Cijendil village in the mountainous Cianjur district, where a landslide set off by Monday’s quake left tonnes of debris in the form of mud, rocks and splintered trees.