The Petrinja Earthquake
As a fire brigade was about to pass us by, people stopped them, pointing to a car where a father and son were trapped. Locals had removed the boy, but the fire fighters had to cut the car in half to free the father. As I was about to go live, a man ran to me to say there were two girls dead under the rubble in a street near by. There was no way to check that. I literally had no information on anything. My impression was that just about anybody who was caught indoors at the moment of impact had little or no chance of survival.
When we reached the location the man had told us about, there was already a body covered in a white sheet. The girl was 15 years old. Her mother was in tears, unable to comprehend that her child was gone. After a couple of minutes, her father arrived and broke down.
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