Rescued children offer glimmer of hope
Trembling with emotion on a makeshift stretcher and covered with a filthy brown blanket, 10-year-old Ifsan Rani weeps as she recounts the two days she endured in the wreckage of her school.
She was one of four friends trapped when Saturday's earthquake brought the Birani school in the northwestern town of Balakot crashing to the ground in a pile of twisted rubble.
"Two of the classmates with us died. The other one lost her leg," Rani told AFP as she was carried out of a car to a field hospital set up on open ground in Mansehra, the nearest major city.
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Rani said she and her classmates did not know what had happened when the 7.6 magnitude quake, which is feared to have killed up to 40,000 people in Pakistan, flattened the building.
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