Woman pulled alive from rubble 36 hours after Colombia quake - BBC News

Following a 10-hour rescue operation, emergency workers pulled the 32-year-old from beneath slabs of concrete.

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Rescue workers carry Daniela Largo, wrapped in a blue sheet, to an ambulance after freeing her from beneath the rubble

A 32-year-old woman, who had been trapped under rubble for 36 hours following the 7.4-magnitude quake which shook western Colombia, has been rescued alive.

Daniela Largo was pulled from beneath a collapsed building in the city of Pereira after a 10-hour-long rescue operation.

Firefighters finally managed to reach her via a tunnel they dug below four concrete slabs under which she had been buried.

At least 265 people have died in the quake, according to Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, who said that 496 others remain missing.