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16-year-old survivor Jin Abe lies in a hospital bed talking to the media at the Ishinomaki red Cross hospital in Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture. |
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A teenager rescued from the rubble of Japan's monster earthquake in a rare feat of survival recounted on Monday spending nine days trapped inside the wreckage unable to alert rescuers outside.
Jin Abe and his 80-year-old grandmother Sumi Abe were in the kitchen on the top floor of a two-storey wooden house when the 9.0-magnitude tremor struck on March 11, unleashing a massive tsunami that flattened entire cities.
The building collapsed with both inside but the 16-year-old was able to reach blankets, food and drink, helping them survive for more than a week, huddled together to keep warm.
'We found some water and snacks, so we ate them,' he said on Monday from his hospital bed in the devastated coastal city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture.
'We heard people outside but we couldn't escape,' he said in a frail voice. The teen described being confined in a space 'the size of a room", unable to stand up or walk around.
Finally on Sunday he managed to claw through the rubble and call out to rescue teams combing the earthquake and tsunami zone, and was airlifted to hospital along with his grandmother.
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