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Haiti quake: 4-year-old survives after being buried for 3 days

Updated on: 17 January,2010 10:25 AM IST  | 
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Amid the widespread despair caused by the massive earthquake in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince, emerged a rare moment of joy when a four-year-old boy was pulled to safety three days after he was buried alive in his two-storey family home

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Amid the widespread despair caused by the massive earthquake in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince, emerged a rare moment of joy when a four-year-old boy was pulled to safety three days after he was buried alive in his two-storey family home.

Paul Derlice was exhausted and intensely dehydrated but miraculously unharmed.

"I'm very proud. I feel like a hero. God let this boy live," Daily News quoted one of the crew of neighbours -- who rescued the boy with only a pick-axe and a couple of hammers -- as saying.

Paul was in the ground floor of his family home when the quake hit. Paul was presumed dead in the rubble, along with three others who lived in the building.

But at about 8 am on Friday, Rene Contant, who works for Paul's mother, heard a voice from deep underground.

"I was passing by and speaking aloud and the child heard that. He said, 'Boss Rene' and 'Mama'.''

His mother, unable to believe her eyes, called it a miracle.




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