Three rescued from rubble five days after quake

RESCUERS pulled three people alive from the rubble yesterday, five days after an earthquake killed nearly 2,000 people in a Tibetan region of western China.

Aid convoys, meanwhile, clogged the main road into the remote mountainous area.

China Central Television said a four-year-old girl and a woman had been trapped since last Wednesday under a bed in a collapsed mud house in a village about 20 kilometres from the hardest- hit town of Jiegu, until rescuers dug them out yesterday.