Girl's legs amputated to free her from rubble
China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-16 07:36
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Rescuers carry high-school student Yang Liu (wearing a white helmet) from the rubble after doctors amputated her legs to free her at a collapsed school in the township of Hanwang, Mianzhu, yesterday. Inset left: Yang, wearing a helmet given by a rescuer, is trapped under concrete on Wednesday. Inset right: Yang is fed water by a rescuer. Reuters |
HANWANG, Mianzhu: Doctors amputated a teenage girl's crushed legs yesterday, the only way they could pull her alive from the wreckage of her school three days after an earthquake flattened swathes of Sichuan province.
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