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The military, police and local vigilantes are conducting a search for the children, combing nearby forests and remote routes believed to have been used by the gunmen.

They decipher games with a fine-tooth comb when the truth is that they are decided either by defensive mistakes or good play in the final third, both of which produce goal-scoring opportunities.

Police said that security agencies were "combing the forests with a view to rescue the abducted students".

An AFP photographer saw heavy machinery digging through landslides in Banjarnegara villages as rescue teams combed through the debris.

Convinced that someone must have described the optic nerve coils in earlier literature, the research team combed through vast archives.