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Child Pulled Alive from Quake Ruin
Aired November 01, 2002 - 06:04 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In southern Italy, heavy equipment has been brought in to move huge chunks of rubble at a collapsed school. It took searchers all night, but another child has been found alive. The building was crumbled by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.
CNN's Delia Gallagher joins us live from the village of San Giuliano di Puglia with more.
That is good news, Delia.
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Carol, indeed. We don't have the official confirmation, but we do believe that a child is alive -- was pulled out this morning.
Rescue crews have been working for over 24 hours now to find any remaining survivors in the school that collapsed yesterday morning, 11:30 our time, after a 5.4 earthquake.
The figures that we have at the moment are 34 people have been pulled out alive, 22 children are confirmed dead, 2 adults also confirmed dead, and then the 1 child that was pulled out this morning, whom everybody hopes is OK and alive.
President Silvio Berlusconi visited the site yesterday. He was greeted by a very unhappy crowd, wanting to know why this school of all of the buildings in the town was the only thing to have collapsed entirely in the earthquake. It was built in the 1950s and was clearly not earthquake-proof.
So, here, we have a mixture of anger and grief in southern Italy -- Carol.
LIN: Delia, just clarify some of the numbers for us. So, they think there are a half-dozen more people still under the rubble right now, is that right?
GALLAGHER: Well, we've got five or six still under the rubble. Yes, Carol, that would be correct.
Of course, the figures are always changing every moment. There are many rescue workers down there, and we are attempting to get the figures. But there are parents waiting anxiously for every child that comes out, they must go to the gymnasium, which is around the corner, identify the bodies, and then we get the official figures.
So, we don't have final confirmation. We do know 34 people are alive, which is good news -- Carol. LIN: Absolutely. All right, thank you very much, Delia Gallagher, reporting live there.
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Aired November 1, 2002 - 06:04 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In southern Italy, heavy equipment has been brought in to move huge chunks of rubble at a collapsed school. It took searchers all night, but another child has been found alive. The building was crumbled by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake.
CNN's Delia Gallagher joins us live from the village of San Giuliano di Puglia with more.
That is good news, Delia.
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Carol, indeed. We don't have the official confirmation, but we do believe that a child is alive -- was pulled out this morning.
Rescue crews have been working for over 24 hours now to find any remaining survivors in the school that collapsed yesterday morning, 11:30 our time, after a 5.4 earthquake.
The figures that we have at the moment are 34 people have been pulled out alive, 22 children are confirmed dead, 2 adults also confirmed dead, and then the 1 child that was pulled out this morning, whom everybody hopes is OK and alive.
President Silvio Berlusconi visited the site yesterday. He was greeted by a very unhappy crowd, wanting to know why this school of all of the buildings in the town was the only thing to have collapsed entirely in the earthquake. It was built in the 1950s and was clearly not earthquake-proof.
So, here, we have a mixture of anger and grief in southern Italy -- Carol.
LIN: Delia, just clarify some of the numbers for us. So, they think there are a half-dozen more people still under the rubble right now, is that right?
GALLAGHER: Well, we've got five or six still under the rubble. Yes, Carol, that would be correct.
Of course, the figures are always changing every moment. There are many rescue workers down there, and we are attempting to get the figures. But there are parents waiting anxiously for every child that comes out, they must go to the gymnasium, which is around the corner, identify the bodies, and then we get the official figures.
So, we don't have final confirmation. We do know 34 people are alive, which is good news -- Carol. LIN: Absolutely. All right, thank you very much, Delia Gallagher, reporting live there.
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