Woman in her 90s rescued five days after deadly Japanese quake

Woman in her 90s rescued five days after deadly Japanese quake
The woman was rescued from a collapsed house in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture (Kyodo News via AP)

A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people.

The woman in Suzu city, Ishikawa Prefecture, had survived for more than five days after the 7.6 magnitude quake that hit the area on Monday.

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