2 pulled from landslide, but only one survives
March 13, 2010, Saturday
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A 17-YEAR-old girl -- pulled alive with her older brother early yesterday morning from a landslide where they had been buried for 54 hours -- died in the hospital.
"The girl had a very weak pulse when she was taken to hospital. Emergency medical treatment failed after just a few minutes," said Wang Xiongwei, dean of the orthopedics department at Zizhou County Hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Her brother, Cao Lele, was still under intensive care in the hospital in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County.
Doctor Wang said the brother was slightly injured, but suffering the effects of being buried for 54 hours in debris.
Cao Jingjun, father of the two, was waiting outside his son's ward.
"I had secretly felt lucky, after watching my children brought out alive this morning. But I knew my girl looked like she was dying," he said.
Cao Lele, 20, and his sister Cao Yanyan were rescued at 6:57am yesterday, after rescuers heard the young man's feeble cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor.
Wang Li, one of the rescuers, said the pair huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister was seriously hurt.
"The girl had very weak breathing, when she was rescued," he said.
The rescue work ended yesterday after Cao's family was found.
The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30am on Wednesday reached 27, including the death of the teenager yesterday.
About 90,000 cubic meters of loess earth from a hillside crushed 25 houses in the village, burying 44 people. Six people escaped uninjured.
"The girl had a very weak pulse when she was taken to hospital. Emergency medical treatment failed after just a few minutes," said Wang Xiongwei, dean of the orthopedics department at Zizhou County Hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Her brother, Cao Lele, was still under intensive care in the hospital in Shuanghuyu Village, Zizhou County.
Doctor Wang said the brother was slightly injured, but suffering the effects of being buried for 54 hours in debris.
Cao Jingjun, father of the two, was waiting outside his son's ward.
"I had secretly felt lucky, after watching my children brought out alive this morning. But I knew my girl looked like she was dying," he said.
Cao Lele, 20, and his sister Cao Yanyan were rescued at 6:57am yesterday, after rescuers heard the young man's feeble cry for help from beneath a collapsed floor.
Wang Li, one of the rescuers, said the pair huddled with their mother, who had already died, when they were found. The sister was seriously hurt.
"The girl had very weak breathing, when she was rescued," he said.
The rescue work ended yesterday after Cao's family was found.
The death toll from the landslide that occurred at 1:30am on Wednesday reached 27, including the death of the teenager yesterday.
About 90,000 cubic meters of loess earth from a hillside crushed 25 houses in the village, burying 44 people. Six people escaped uninjured.
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