A middle-aged man and a woman were pulled out alive from under the
rubble in the Indian town of Bhuj today, 10 days after the earthquake hit the western corner of the country, officials said.
The brother and sister were rescued from the ground floor of their home by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, who used axes and hammers to pull them out from the debris.
"They were stuck in the kitchen on the ground floor of their three- storey apartment building and had enough food and water to survive," Mr V.N. Roy, BSF Inspector General, said.
Bhuj on the western corner of the state of Gujarat was badly hit by the January 26th earthquake, which registered 7.9 on the Richter scale and killed an estimated 30,000 people.
The last survivor from the quake had come at the weekend when a teenager was pulled from a well near the flattened town of Bachchau.
Reuters