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Destroyed roads, hilly terrain and aftershocks are hampering the relief and rescue effort in Indonesia following Monday's earthquake in the province of West Java. Many people were crushed or trapped when walls and roofs caved in.

Hundreds of people died but the authorities say at least 150 more people are still missing. With about 80 schools in the area affected, officials have said many of the dead are schoolchildren who were in class when the quake struck.

El Hakim is one of the displaced survivors 鈥� his home is a few kilometres from the epicentre of the quake 鈥� and he described to Newsday how he is living now.

鈥淭here are many [makeshift] tents over here because we had to move from our home. There have been landslides there so it鈥檚 hard to go back. We can still feel tremors. Many children feel trauma 鈥� they don鈥檛 want to go home and if they feel the tremors they will cry or run away.鈥�

(Pic: Students and a teacher carry Qurans as they walk past their collapsed Islamic boarding school caused by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake, in Cianjur, Indonesia; Credit: EPA)

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