Alive, after 50 hours
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August 11, 2010, Wednesday
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A 52-YEAR-OLD Tibetan man was pulled alive from the debris of a toppled apartment building yesterday, more than 50 hours after the massive landslides that leveled Zhouqu County in northwest China's Gansu Province.
Liu Ma Shindan was rescued at 11:20am from the ruins of a residential building for telecommunication workers in the county seat, an official said.
He was saved by rescuers from neighboring Sichuan Province.
Doctors said his heart rate and breathing were normal, but he was too weak to speak.
They covered his eyes with a towel to avoid vision impairment from the daylight, and gave him an injection of glucose.
He received first aid at a makeshift clinic in the county seat.
Rescuers found indications at midday on Monday that survivors might still be buried in the debris and decided to keep searching. They also retrieved four bodies at the same site.
More than 7,000 troops were still battling through sludge and rubble yesterday in a round-the-clock operation to find survivors, two days after the mudslides hit the town.
At least 30 percent of the local population are Tibetan. Many people have half Tibetan, half Chinese names, as a result of intermarriages between the two ethnic groups.
Liu Ma Shindan was rescued at 11:20am from the ruins of a residential building for telecommunication workers in the county seat, an official said.
He was saved by rescuers from neighboring Sichuan Province.
Doctors said his heart rate and breathing were normal, but he was too weak to speak.
They covered his eyes with a towel to avoid vision impairment from the daylight, and gave him an injection of glucose.
He received first aid at a makeshift clinic in the county seat.
Rescuers found indications at midday on Monday that survivors might still be buried in the debris and decided to keep searching. They also retrieved four bodies at the same site.
More than 7,000 troops were still battling through sludge and rubble yesterday in a round-the-clock operation to find survivors, two days after the mudslides hit the town.
At least 30 percent of the local population are Tibetan. Many people have half Tibetan, half Chinese names, as a result of intermarriages between the two ethnic groups.
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