Indonesia earthquake slows efforts to rescue those trapped by school collapse

Rescuers battling to extricate students from the rubble of an Islamic school under construction that collapsed and killed at least six in Indonesia's province of East Java faced a harder task on Wednesday, a day after an earthquake packed the debris tighter. The magnitude 6.5 quake complicated the rescue work by narrowing the room for manoeuvre, said Emi Frizer, an official of Indonesia's search and rescue agency. "If the space was initially 50 cm (20 inches) high, it caved in to 10 cm (4 inches), and we fear it impacts the constriction of the victims," added agency chief Mohammad Syafii. The earthquake struck the region of Sumenep, about 200 km (124 miles) from the school, injuring three people and damaging...