For hours Aris stared at an excavator working its way through mounds of earth on the Indonesian island of Java in the hope it might uncover some trace of his loved ones, missing after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake destroyed their home.
The 45-year-old had spent hours walking to the district of Cugenang where his relatives lived until disaster struck on Monday. Thefrom the quake in Indonesia's most populous province of West Java was 252 and expected to rise, officials said.
The shallow quake that struck in a mountainous area early on Monday afternoon triggered a landslide that authorities say has buried at least one village.
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