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Pregnant woman rescued after two days in rubble
A Chinese woman, eight months pregnant, was pulled to safety yesterday after spending 50 hours trapped under earthquake rubble.
- AP
- Published: 00:34 May 15, 2008
Dujiangyan: A Chinese woman, eight months pregnant, was pulled to safety on Wednesday after spending 50 hours trapped under earthquake rubble.
Rescue workers pulled a second woman to safety minutes later in the same place in rare good news in Sichuan province.
Safety officials could speak to Zhang Xiaoyan but had to proceed slowly in trying to dig her out for fear that the rubble above her would shift and collapse onto her.
"It is very moving. It's a miracle brought about by us all working together," said Sun Guoli, the fire chief of nearby Chengdu, the provincial capital. Sun was on the scene for the whole of the 50-hour rescue operation.
The rescue was not the only one yesterday. In the Beichuan region further north in Sichuan, a 3-year-old girl who was trapped for more than 40 hours under the bodies of her parents was pulled to safety, the official Xinhua New Agency said.
It said rescuers heard Song Xinyi on Tuesday morning, but were unable to pull her out right away due to fears the debris above her would collapse. She was fed and shielded from the rain until rescuers extricated her from the rubble.
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