Sunday, March 20, 2011

Grandmother and grandson, survived nine days under rubble

Sumi Abe and Jin Abe, found alive in the city of Ishinomaki, north of Sendai, a center substantially cleared from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast of Japan.

Grandmother, 80, and the grandson of 16 years have been rescued from the rubble of their home, nine days after the apocalypse. The media tell the Nipponese. A voice in the rubble - it was 16 (8 am in Italy) when policemen and firefighters engaged in rescue operations in which there is little hope of finding people alive, they heard a voice coming from the rubble of a home.


"Help," said the voice. Jin was one of sixteen. At 217 hours after the earthquake and tsunami. Already this had seemed incredible to rescuer. Jin pulled out, they verified that he was fine and could speak. And he immediately said: "Inside is my grandmother. Rescuers rushed to search through the rubble and they pulled out of Sumi.

Alive and, despite his age, not at all scared, without worrying injury, lucid enough to worry about - as shown in the image of public television NHK - the nephew. " Rescue after nine days also saves GLASSES - Your grandson is well, they told rescuers moved. The grandson and his grandmother - who saved even glasses - were taken to hospital, where her grandmother has asked for a blanket because she felt cold.

It was the least. Over nine days in those conditions, only eating yogurt and drinking cola (taken from a refrigerator near providentially), without moving, exposed to intense cold that afflicted the region in hopes of making the survival of those who are in the rubble cities wiped out by the fury of nature more vague.

Can truly be considered lucky. The disaster has caused Japan, as announced today the Police Department, already over 20 thousand people dead or missing. A budget, unfortunately, that seems far from being consolidated. Also to demonstrate the dramatic increase in the number of missing daily by recognized authority, with each passing day, could go to extend the column of those who will never be saved.

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