A ten-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble after
spending 17 hours trapped upside down in debris from the Italian
earthquake. watch video after the cut
The
child was hauled to safety by rescuers who shouted 'she's alive' as
they carried her from the ruins of a building in the devastated central
Italian town of Pescara del Tronto.
Footage shows just the dust-covered legs of the youngster as emergency crews tried desperately to free her from the rubble.
One rescuer could be heard saying: 'You can hear something under here. Quiet, quiet.'
He
then urged the child to wriggle free, saying: 'Come on, Giulia, come
on, Giulia. ... Watch your head.' Cheers broke out when she was pulled
out.
It
was a brief moment of joy on a day in which at least 247 people were
killed in the region following a 6.2-magnitude quake at 3.30am
yesterday.
At least 247 people have been killed,
including two babies, and 100 people are believed to be trapped under
rubble after the 6.2-magnitude quake struck at 3.30am local time this
morning while villagers slept in their beds
She
had spent about 17 hours wedged in a collapsed building in what was
once a picturesque hamlet. Incredibly, she did not appear to have
suffered serious injuries.
Rescuers rest in a large building that
has been converted into a base for operations in Amatrice, Italy,
before efforts recommence this morning to find the hundreds of missing
Thousands of people have been
displaced by the earthquake, which reduced houses to rubble and almost
wiped entire towns off the map
Rescuers in Armatrice were left
exhausted last night after digging through the rubble with industrial
equipment and sometimes even their bare hands
Rescuers continued to work through the rubble into the night, using diggers to clear the debris from the huge earthquake
Hundreds of people were due to spend a
chilly night wrapped in blankets or in hastily-assembled tents with the
risk of aftershocks making it too risky for them to return home
10 year old girl pulled from rubble alive after 17 hours of being buried in Italian Earthquake
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