Man saved from flattened mosque in Indonesia island

Video shot by a soldier shows rescuers shouting ‘ Thank God’ as a man is pulled from a space under the mosque’s flattened roof sometime on Monday

Lading-Lading ( Indonesia), Aug. 7: Soldiers have pulled a man alive from the rubble of a large mosque flattened by an earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok, while thousands of homeless locals waited for aid today and stranded tourists camped at beaches and in the lobbies of damaged hotels.

Disaster officials have not said that how many people they believe are buried beneath the ruins of the Jabal Nur mosque but a rescue worker told the Associated Press that about 50 people were praying inside when it collapsed. Video shot by a soldier shows rescuers shouting “Thank God” as a man is pulled from a space under the mosque’s flattened roof sometime on Monday and he staggers away from the ruins supported by soldiers. “You’re safe, mister,” says one of the soldiers as emotion overcomes the man, clad in Islamic robes, and villagers crowd around him.

Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said that he hopes “a lot” of people can be saved from the mosque. Two people were rescued from the building Monday including a woman with a broken leg, said villager Supri Yono, and three were found dead.

Rescuers were using heavy duty cutting equipment on Tuesday to prize apart the tangled mound of debris.