Survivors Of Indonesian Quake Found; 3,000 Missing

By IRWAN FIRDAUS and ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press
Fri, 10/02/2009 - 3:17pm

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) -- Ratna Kurniasari Virgo lay surrounded by death for 40 hours - trapped with a broken leg between the collapsed walls of her college and the bodies of her dead friends. Her rescue Friday was a rare tale of survival two days after a massive Indonesian earthquake killed at least 715 people and left nearly 3,000 missing under the rubble of tens of thousands of buildings....

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