Rescuers in central China have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed almost six days earlier.
She was able to communicate with them on how to best pull her outThe unidentified woman is the 10th survivor of the disaster in the city of Changsha.
She was rescued shortly after midnight on Thursday, about 132 hours after the rear of the six-storey building suddenly caved in on April 29, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Also held were three people in charge of design and construction and five others who allegedly gave a false safety assessment for a guest house on the building's fourth to sixth floors.The building also held a residence, a cafe and shops.
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