CIANJUR, Indonesia: A 7-year-old Indonesian girl who was the subject of a daylong rescue effort after an earthquake killed 272 people in West Java has been found dead, rescuers told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday.

Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of Cianjur town, the epicenter of the quake that triggered landslides, collapsed roofs, walls and buried victims in mounds of earth Monday.

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