More survivors rescued at Margalla Towers
By Asim Hussain

ISLAMABAD—An entrapped young man was retrieved alive underneath the Margalla Tower debris after 36 hours.
Ubaid 20 was rescued, without a scratch, from the heaps of rubbles by the rescue team. There was outburst of joy coupled with several rounds of loud applause by hundreds of people present at the site. The episode raised dashing hopes of retrieval of other people still entrapped underneath the rubbles.
Earlier, a teenage boy was also rescued underneath the debris after 27 hours of the incident. Fast-paced Rescue efforts for removal of wreckage of the 13-storey Margalla Towers are underway to save a trapped woman in niche of time.
According to details, on the third day of rescue efforts, falling on Monday, the rescue teams of Pakistan and Britain have succeeded in pulling out 6 dead bodies from the wreckage of the collapsed towers.
According to the Police Information Centre, set up in the ill-fated towers, about 27 dead bodies have been dug out so far. About 81 injured have also been pulled out.
According to a careful analysis about fifty dead bodies are still buried underneath the rubble.
The British Rescue team worker, John Holland has told the press that three persons were dug out alive, who have indicated a trapped woman inside. However the rescue teams have so far failed to reach that spot. He said that wreckage was being cut rapidly across like cakes to evacuate that woman alive.
He also hoped that there would be more alive people in the wreckage , but so far only one such person, the woman, has been located.
Replying to a question about total number of dead bodies so far located, Mr. John Holland said that the British team is concerned about alive victims only.
The Pakistani Rescue team worker Capt. Rizwan, specializing in recovering dead bodies informed that so far about fifty dead bodies are expected from the wreckage.
He also informed that the process of cutting the wreckage was to save an entombed woman.