Naqsha Bibi, now under hospital treatment, is suffering from muscle stiffness and is so weak that she can barely talk....Imagine what this woman went through, suffering to survive and thinking about dying all those days, with her relatives next door and not bothering to look for her, and then, when they just happen to find her, being set aside as if she were already a corpse. She's not able to talk yet, but I'd like to know what she has to say about this Faiz Din character.
"We were not even looking for her," says Faiz Din, her cousin who found her....
"Frankly, we were all so busy taking care of our own families that no one was thinking of the house next door," Faiz Din says....
It seems that Naqsha was trapped in her kitchen when her small house collapsed around her....
Faiz Din says there were some traces of food, most of it rotting, in the kitchen when he found her.
The air in the tiny space was fresh, which implies that some airway must have remained open through the debris.
And there was a trickle of water on one side of the kitchen, probably from one of several tiny streams that dot the Kamsar area.
"We started clearing the debris of her house on 10 December, mainly to pull the iron sheets off the collapsed roof to build ourselves a shelter," says Faiz Din....
"We first thought she was dead but she opened her eyes as we were pulling her out," says Faiz....
That was why Faiz Din didn't take her to a doctor immediately despite being so close to Muzaffarabad.
"We thought she was going to die any moment," he says.
"So we just put her inside a tent and let her be."
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Rescued alive after two months under earthquake debris.
I can't understand how this is possible, but a woman trapped by the October 8th earthquake has just been saved.
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