Rescuers on Malaysia's highest peak searched on Sunday for six climbers after recovering 16 dead from a strong earthquake that had trapped scores of trekkers. One survivor said she waited for a rescue helicopter that never came.

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake on Friday sent rocks and boulders raining down the trekking routes on 4,095-meter-high Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state on Borneo island.

Six Singapore primary school students and one teacher were among the 16 dead.