Japan earthquake miracle - two survive after nine days trapped

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Japan earthquake miracle - two survive after nine days trapped

by Steve White, Daily Mirror 21/03/2011

THEY had been given up for dead by virtually everyone.

Everyone, that is, except for defiant dad Akira Abe. He clung stubbornly to the desperate hope that his frail mother and teenage son had somehow survived the devastating earthquake and tsunami that brought destruction to Japan.

And yesterday – NINE DAYS after the disaster – his faith was rewarded.

Now 80-year-old Sumi Abe and her 16-year-old grandson Jin have become symbols of hope for the entire nation.

And relieved Akira, who had begged police to keep searching, told the world: “I always believed they were alive.” The pair were rescued after Jin was spotted in the collapsed roof of a wooden house in the ravaged city of Ishinomaki.

As rescuers answered his cries for help he pointed them further down inside the rubble to where Sumi was trapped.

Both were weak and exhausted after surviving without water or power.

Elderly Sumi, who has trouble walking, and Jin, who had hypothermia and could not pull himself from the debris, were taken by helicopter to a hospital.

The official death toll stands so far at 8,400 – with a further 13,000 missing and almost half a million still living in temporary shelters.

Experts battling to stabilise damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima yesterday described radiation levels as “minimal”, despite traces turning up in spinach and milk up to 75 miles away.

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