Quake Victim, 17, Rescued From Well
A teenager was pulled alive from a well more than a week after India’s earthquake killed as many as 30,000 people, witnesses said Sunday.
Arjun Bhai, 17, was found Saturday in a village near the flattened western Indian town of Bhachau, neighbor Usha Ben said.
“We discovered he was in there when he started throwing stones,” she said. “He thought [the earthquake] was a bomb and ran into a shed by the well, and the shed fell into the well.”
Elsewhere in Gujarat state, bulldozers started up their engines, soldiers spread chemicals to halt the spread of disease and Hindu priests blamed the disaster on sins “blacker than mascara.”
In the town of Bhuj, hit hard by the 7.9 quake on Jan. 26, the smell of disinfectant replaced the stench of rotting bodies.
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