ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: A little girl was rescued on Monday after living for nine days under a cupboard in her home that was destroyed in Pakistan’s devastating earthquake, the military said.

The parents of six-year-old Tajun Nissa had survived in the remote mountains east of the ravaged town of Balakot and told soldiers who hiked there with supplies that they did not know their daughter’s fate.

The troops pulled apart the rubble and found the girl weak but still alive underneath a small cupboard, Pakistan’s chief military spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told AFP.

“She was lucky because she was in a cavity in the rubble,” he said.

It was not known what if anything the girl was able to eat since the Oct 8 earthquake. Sultan said the soldiers took the family to an army relief camp.

Rescuers have all but given up hope of finding survivors of the Earthquake.—AFP