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Journalism of Courage
BHUJ, JAN 29: Rescuers picking through the rubble of India’s worst earthquake found a small boy trapped alive on Monday. Rescue workers in Bhuj said on Monday a small boy had been found alive but they feared they would have to amputate a limb to get him out.
Mike Thomas, one of a British rescue team, said that the boy, who was three or four years old, was stuck and in order to get him out they would have to amputate a limb.
"They have asked for surgeons for an amputation," he said. The boy’s brother was already dead and his mother died beside him soon after rescuers arrived.
Earlier, soldiers in Bhuj dug Champa ben Seth, 90, out of the rubble. She had survived because her head was protected by an old sewing machine. She had been calling out and Sikh soldiers used their hands and crowbars to dig her out.
As she emerged, asking for water, she said that she had heard the voices of two more people alive under the rubble.
