Survivors pulled from quake debris

Rescue teams today pulled two survivors from the rubble of a 10-storey apartment building that collapsed in the 7.6-magnitude earthquake a day earlier, doctors said.

Rescue teams today pulled two survivors from the rubble of a 10-storey apartment building that collapsed in the 7.6-magnitude earthquake a day earlier, doctors said.

The survivors, a boy and a woman who were listed in stable condition, said others were trapped alive and calling for help beneath the debris, said Adil Inayat, a doctor at PIMS hospital in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

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