By Bernama,
Yingchuan : Ma Yuan Jiang, a power plant executive, was rescued at around 00:50 a.m. Tuesday, from the rubble in Wenchuan County of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, nearly 179 hours after the May 12 earthquake.
The 31-year-old survivor was pulled by a Shanghai rescue team from the debris of a flattened power plant, after more than 30 hours’ efforts, XINHUA news agency reported.
Rescuers found Ma at afternoon on May 18 at the debris of a flattened office building, when they were digging hole trying to reach Yu Jinhua, a colleague of Ma.
Followed by an amputation operation, Yu was rescued at about 6:00 p.m. on May 18. Rescuers then turned to Ma and sent sweetened water to him through a straw.
Ma was receiving treatment at the temporary clinic of the Chongqing No. 3 Military Hospital, and will be sent by air to a hospital in Chengdu.
He was a power generation department vice director of the Yingxiu Bay Hydro-Power Plant.