‘Like a miracle’: 84-year-old woman pulled alive from rubble three days after Indonesian quake

An 84-year-old woman has been pulled alive from the wreckage of her home in eastern Indonesia, three days after a powerful earthquake struck the region, The Guardian reports. Rescuers found Paulina Pobi in the flattened remains of her house on Flores island; a landslide triggered by the quake had blocked access to her village, leaving her trapped beneath the rubble. The magnitude seven point seven quake hit off Flores on Saturday morning, killing at least seventy-three people, injuring more than nine hundred, and displacing nearly sixty thousand others.

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