Woman, 80, and grandson found alive 9 days after quake

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman and her teenage grandson were miraculously rescued yesterday in north-eastern Japan.

Woman, 80, and grandson found alive 9 days after quake

The event occurred when the youth was able to pull himself out of their flattened two-storey house nine days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Jin Abe, 16, was seen calling out for help from the roof of the collapsed home in the hard-hit city of Ishinomaki, according to the Miyagi Prefectural Police.

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