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More survivors found in Haiti amid strong aftershocks
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-18 22:18
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BEIJING: Five days after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake battered Haiti on Tuesday, rescue workers have found more survivors in the collapsed buildings amid strong aftershocks.
Rescue teams from different countries had already saved more than 70 lives, according Elisabeth Byears, the UN spokeswoman.
But the rescue teams said they would not give up any hope of finding more survivors under the rubble of flattened buildings in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti.
Among the survivors was a 29-year-old American woman, who was pulled alive from a collapsed building in the University of Port-au-Prince on Saturday evening by a US rescue team, after having been trapped there for 97 hours.
The US team also found three people alive under the debris of a collapsed supermarket building in a suburb of the Haitian capital. An operation was under way to save them.
With the help of Mexican police and the navy, a well-trained Mexican rescue team Saturday saved a 35-year-old school teacher buried under the rubble. On Friday, the team also rescued seven survivors. Also on Saturday, an Israeli rescue team pulled a survivor from the collapsed building of the Haitian ministry of taxation.
At around 3:40 am local time (0840 GMT) on Sunday, a strong aftershock hit Port-au-Prince, shattering windows of many buildings.
