Paris:
Rescuers pulled a three-week-old baby girl alive from the rubble of a house more than a week after it was destroyed in Haiti's devastating earthquake, French radio reported on Wednesday.
French rescuers found the girl in a hollow beneath the ruins of the house in Jacmel, a town in the south of the island, after spending five hours trying the get through to her, France Inter station said.
The baby's uncle told the station that the girl, named Elisabeth, was 23 days old. The station reported she was in healthy condition and did not appear wounded and had been taken to an American field hospital nearby.
The United Nations said today that 121 people had been rescued by international teams from the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti since the January 12 earthquake.
French rescuers found the girl in a hollow beneath the ruins of the house in Jacmel, a town in the south of the island, after spending five hours trying the get through to her, France Inter station said.
The baby's uncle told the station that the girl, named Elisabeth, was 23 days old. The station reported she was in healthy condition and did not appear wounded and had been taken to an American field hospital nearby.
The United Nations said today that 121 people had been rescued by international teams from the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti since the January 12 earthquake.
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