Woman rescued from quake rubble after 195 hours
2008-05-21 HKT 01:11
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A woman who survived on
rainwater has been pulled
from the rubble of the Sichuan
earthquake, a miraculous eight
days after the disaster.
Xinhua news agency said the
woman in her 60s had spent 195
hours in the rubble in the
city of Pengzhou. She was
reported to be conscious when
rescuers found her. The
official death toll in the
quake has now risen to more
than 40-thousand. The state
council released the figure in
a statement, which also said
the number of injured was just
over 247-thousand. The number
of homeless was put at more than five-million.
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