In pictures: Hunt for buried survivors after deadly quake hits Indonesia

Rescuers have searched for survivors buried under the rubble, after an earthquake hit Indonesia's main island of Java, killing at least 252 people, injuring hundreds and leaving more feared trapped in collapsed buildings.

One of the dozens of rescuers, 34-year-old Dimas Reviansyah, said teams were using chainsaws and excavators to break through piles of felled trees and debris to reach areas where civilians were believed to be trapped. Some of the dead were students at an Islamic boarding school while others were killed in their homes when roofs and walls fell in on them.

By Tuesday morning, 89 percent of power to Cianjur, a town of about 175,000 people, had been recovered by state-owned electricity company PLN, according to state news agency Antara. Grieving relatives waited for authorities to release bodies from morgues to bury their loved ones in accordance with their Islamic faith.Rahmi Leonita's father was riding a motorbike to Cianjur when the quake struck.

The devastation caused by the quake was made worse by a wave of 62 smaller aftershocks — with magnitudes ranging from 1.8 to 4 — that relentlessly shook Cianjur.

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