Girl, 5, rescued after four days in rubble
For nearly 100 hours, five-year-old Zarabe Shah lay trapped under the stairwell in the rubble of her quake-hit home.
Today, Russian rescuers pulled the dazed, dust-covered girl from the debris, a boost for the relief effort as hopes faded of finding other earthquake survivors.
“I want to drink,” the gaunt girl whispered. She wanted a glass of water, but said she wasn’t hungry.
A day earlier, neighbours recovered the bodies of her father and two of her sisters from the debris.
Her mother and another two sisters survived.
But her mother had given Zarabe up for dead and had left for the city of Abbotabad, a town north of Islamabad that suffered far less damage than Muzaffarabad and other parts of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
Zarabe was taken to a squalid camp where other survivors of the massive earthquake on Saturday are staying with little shelter or food, though aid is now arriving in bulk in the region.
“I was scared,” said Zarabe, who was rescued almost exactly four days after the earthquake that killed tens of thousands.
| Related Stories: |
|
