CHRISTCHURCH: A woman has been pulled alive from the wreckage of an office block more than 24 hours after a major earthquake razed buildings and left nearly 400 dead or missing in New Zealand.Ann Bodkin, who was lying under her desk, emerged wrapped in blankets to applause from rescue workers who have been poring through the mangled remains of Christchurch's four-storey Pyne Gould building.
"It just seems like a miracle. it must be a very strong desk and she must have got under it very quickly," her sister Sally Bodkin Allen told Fairfax Media after the Wednesday rescue.
Some 500 rescue personnel are digging through buildings in Christchurch's devastated city centre after Tuesday's shallow, 6.3 magnitude earthquake left at least 75 dead and about 300 missing.
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