60yr-old survives two killer quakes; CHINA DISASTER.

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THE luckiest survivor of China's earthquake was pulled from the rubble in a far worse disaster 30 years ago.

Alatanbagan Taoqi, 60, was the sole survivor in his office block when it collapsed on May 12.

In 1976 he was close to the epicentre epicentre

Point on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the source (or focus) of an earthquake. There the effects of the earthquake usually are most severe. See also seismology. of quake in Tangshan, north-east China, and entombed for 10 days. That quake killed at least 240,000 people.

He said then: "When I realised that it was an earthquake, it was too late to run off."

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	May 24, 2008
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