Surrounded by chaos, panicked residents filled the streets and hospitals of a west Java city for hours Monday after a tremor killed at least 62 people and injured hundreds more.

Agus Azhari, 19, was with his mother at her family home when the living room was destroyed within seconds by the quake, which was centered in Cianjur in West Java, the worst-hit city.

Parts of the walls and roof fell to the ground, along with cabinets and other debris, hitting his legs and hands.

“I couldn’t see anything. The dust from the debris blocked my view for a while,” Azhari told AFP. He said he had never experienced an earthquake like this before.

The Indonesian teenager shared a video of his 56-year-old mother screaming: “Lord have mercy! My house!” as her home shook.

“I pulled my mother’s hand and we ran outside,” he said. “I heard people screaming for help around me.”

The shallow, magnitude 5.6 quake brought down the roofs and walls of houses built in the city’s hilly landscape. Many became more vulnerable through the use of wood, mud, and concrete in their construction.

Rescue workers raced to treat victims in every possible outdoor area as the city’s three hospitals were overwhelmed and lacked enough space to handle a death toll of 700 injured.

At least 25 people are still trapped in the rubble, authorities said.

Residents took lifeless bodies to Cianjur Sayang Hospital in pickup trucks and on motorcycles. Power outages meant that doctors could not operate immediately.

Some of the injured sat on stretchers or blankets with their heads and limbs bandaged. Elderly women sat in wheelchairs waiting to be treated while many concerned onlookers looked on.

At another hospital, Cimacan, victims arrived covered in blood while parents searched for missing children.

Several injured elderly women were carried on stretchers to makeshift green tents that were erected outside the hospital.

Immediately after the quake, people ran to resuscitate the victims, while others fled their homes for safety.

Dozens of aftershocks shook the city for minutes that felt like hours to distraught locals.

The provincial governor said some of the injured had to have their heads and feet sewn back together as they were injured by the debris that fell around them.

Landslides around the city buried bodies and bulldozers were mobilized to reopen the roads.

A woman and a baby were pulled alive from the rubble while others nearby lost their lives.

Oman, a 55-year-old who, like most Indonesians, goes by only one name, was preparing fried rice in a village near Cianjur when his house began to shake.

“Suddenly I was crushed under it. I couldn’t do anything in the rubble. My wife was outside at the time,” he said.

His feet, legs and hands were crushed in the ruins, but his son came to free him and came out with only a broken leg and a bloodied body.

“I didn’t know where to go, but at least I’m alive,” Oman said.

The search for survivors would continue well into the night as the survivors faced the slaughter of lost homes and relatives.

“My mother looked at her house and she cried,” Azhari said.