Quake survivor rescued from rubble after 5-day
Rescuers on the Indonesian quake-hit island of Nias yesterday pulled out a survivor buried beneath the rubble of his house for almost five days.
The man was pulled out by Indonesian, Singaporean and Mexican rescuers in the city of Gunung Sitoli at 5:30 pm (1030 GMT), more than 100 hours after the magnitude 8.7 quake struck, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.
As medical workers attended to the survivor, identified as homeowner Hendra Ho Keng, he was heard yelling in pain.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Ho Keng's cousin Junianto, who had been trying to unearth him since early Saturday after hearing voices from under the ruins, immediately began to sob uncontrollably as he hugged and thanked rescuers.
Ernest Ong of the Singaporean team said two of his men had squeezed into the hole occupied by Ho Keng but could not see any sign of three other people believed buried by the collapsed two-storey building.
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