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Man Rescued After 179 Hours in Rubble

Chinese state news agency says a man has been rescued after being trapped for nearly 179 hours in a collapsed building near the epicenter of the May 12 earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province.

     Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the 31-year-old man was pulled out of the debris of a flattened power plant. It did not say how seriously he was injured.

     Earlier in the day Wang Chunbang, 56, had been dug out of debris on Monday, May 19, 164 hours after the quake hit southwest China's Sichuan Province. Wang was found along with six bodies of victims during the rescue work on the border between Hongguang Township and Shiba Township of Sichuan's Qingchuan County.

Wang Chunbang, a 56 years old survivor, who had been under the debris for 164 hours, is rescued in quake-hit southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yang Guanghui)

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