SoetjiptoGUNUNGSITOLI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescuers on Saturday pulled out alive an Indonesian man trapped for five days in the rubble of his three-story shop house, giving some rare cheer to residents of these islands devastated by tremors.
Singaporean and Mexican rescue workers freed the man after digging down to him through chunks of concrete and other debris in a tense rescue operation lasting about seven hours.
"He's alive, he's a survivor. He's not seriously hurt,"said an official with the Singapore rescue team.
The 42-year-old ethnic Chinese man, Hendra, was placed on a stretcher and taken to hospital.
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