Rare rescues as China quake toll nears 2,000

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JIEGU, China, Apr 19 (AFP): Relief supplies poured into a remote Tibetan region in northwest China Monday as two women and a girl were rescued from the rubble more than five days after a quake that has killed nearly 2,000.
Chinese authorities ramped up the disaster response, clogging roads leading into Qinghai province's Yushu prefecture with truckloads of food, tents and quilts, but warned that icy weather could bring more misery in the days ahead.
In rare good news, rescuers pulled Wujin Cuomao, 68, and Cairen Baji, 4, out of a collapsed building in the town of Jiegu, after relatives kept them alive by passing food and water into the debris.
State television broadcast images of a healthy looking but anxious Wujin Cuomao being lifted onto a stretcher, while another rescue worker clad in orange was shown cradling the girl in his arms in an emergency vehicle.
Both appeared to be ethnic Tibetans, who make up more than 90 percent of the Chinese region's people.
Another Tibetan woman in her thirties was also rescued after 130 hours under the ruins of a collapsed building, state television said.