Buried Alive Eighty Hours -- Rescuers help to pull a 13-year-old Yugoslavian girl from ruins of earthquake-shattered building in which she was buried for 80 hours. The girl was found beneath the rubble by a French group that heard sounds from her by using an ultra-sensitive listening device. One of the French specialists is in center, behind her. Two Yugoslav soldiers and a doctor, right, aid in the rescue of girl yesterday in Skopje that was hit by quake on July 26. The death toll neared 1,000 as leveling of ruins began.
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Buried Alive Eighty Hours -- Rescuers help to pull a 13-year-old Yugoslavian girl from ruins of earthquake-shattered building in which she was buried for 80 hours. The girl was found beneath the rubble by a French group that heard sounds from her by using an ultra-sensitive listening device. One of the French specialists is in center, behind her. Two Yugoslav soldiers and a doctor, right, aid in the rescue of girl yesterday in Skopje that was hit by quake on July 26. The death toll neared 1,000 as leveling of ruins began.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1963]

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[Information from item housing] Earthquakes - MSC - 1960 to --

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