A man carries his injured daughter as they head to a temporary shelter for those displaced by Monday's earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia on Nov 24, 2022. - AP
CIANJUR, Indonesia (AFP): A seven-year-old Indonesian girl who was the subject of a day-long rescue effort after an earthquake killed 272 people in West Java has been found dead, rescuers told AFP on Friday (Nov 25).
Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of Cianjur town, epicentre of the quake that triggered landslides, collapsed roofs, walls and buried victims in mounds of earth Monday.
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