Girl will lose her legs to gain freedom
Chinese rescuers say only way to save trapped girl is to remove her legs
Bobby Yip / Reuters
A rescuer comforts high-school student Yang Liu, whose legs were trapped under concrete, as a dead body is seen next to her among the rubble of a collapsed school in Mianzhu city, China, on Wednesday.
updated 9:52 a.m. MT, Wed., May. 14, 2008
HANWANG, China - Chinese teenager Yang Liu lay alive but buried under the rubble of her school on Wednesday, knowing that the only way she will survive is if she loses her legs.
Yang has been fed, given water and a white helmet as workers remove ruins brick by brick from around her and a crane pulled away slabs of concrete - the remains of the school that parents said had around 800 students before Monday's quake hit.
Rescuers took a photojournalist to where Yang was trapped, before rushing his photos, along with Yang's mother, to the local hospital, where surgeons studied them in preparation.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters
A rescuer comforts high-school student Yang Liu, whose legs were trapped under concrete, as a dead body is seen next to her among the rubble of a collapsed school in Mianzhu city, China, on Wednesday.
updated 9:52 a.m. MT, Wed., May. 14, 2008
HANWANG, China - Chinese teenager Yang Liu lay alive but buried under the rubble of her school on Wednesday, knowing that the only way she will survive is if she loses her legs.
Yang has been fed, given water and a white helmet as workers remove ruins brick by brick from around her and a crane pulled away slabs of concrete - the remains of the school that parents said had around 800 students before Monday's quake hit.
Rescuers took a photojournalist to where Yang was trapped, before rushing his photos, along with Yang's mother, to the local hospital, where surgeons studied them in preparation.
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