As search and rescue efforts continued after a major earthquake hit an Indonesian resort island on Sunday, killing at least 105, a man has been rescued from a flattened mosque on the quake-hit Lombok Island, the government said Tuesday.

"Thank God a victim was rescued from the collapsed mosque," National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Twitter.

Witnesses said people were praying in a mosque in the village of Lading-Lading in North Lombok Regency when the magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck at 7:46 p.m., not far away from the area.

(Rescuers trying to clear the debris of a collapsed mosque)[Photo courtesy of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency]

The man was pulled out alive on Monday afternoon. Sutopo posted a video on Twitter showing the man, wearing a white robe and a Muslim skull cap, being helped by soldiers to walk. He was seen crying and saying, "There is no other God except Allah."

While two excavators have been deployed to clear debris from the collapsed mosque, no new survivors have been found. But with rescue efforts now aided by the heavy machinery, Sutopo said, "hopefully, many more (lives) can be saved."

In the village of Pemenang, also in the worst-hit northern Lombok, a 21-year-old woman was rescued from the rubble of a mini market before noon Tuesday.

Nadia Revanale was shopping with her mother and younger sister when the quake struck and shook the mini-market building, said her uncle.

Both her mother and sister managed to escape before the concrete roof fell down, he said.

Also Tuesday, the disaster mitigation agency raised the death toll from the quake to 105, up from 98 the previous day. More than 200 people have been injured.

Most fatalities occurred on Lombok, with several deaths on the nearby resort island of Bali.

But it is believed people remain trapped under collapsed buildings, making it likely the death toll will rise further.

Sunday's quake occurred exactly a week after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Lombok, killing 17 people and injuring many others.

According to Sutopo, about 10,000 people displaced by the July 29 quake remain in temporary shelters, and the latest temblor has increased the number of displaced to 20,000.