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Six-year-old boy pulled alive from rubble of Indonesia quake

The magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Cianjur is the deadliest in Indonesia since September 2018 [Timur Matahari/AFP]

Rescuers in Indonesia have pulled a six-year-old boy from the rubble of his collapsed house in Cianjur, after he survived the earthquake because he was protected by a mattress.

The boy, named Azka Maulana Malik, had been trapped for two days and was found alive next to the body of his dead grandmother.

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