HONGBAI: Five people buried in rubble were pulled to safety on Saturday by Chinese rescue teams, state media said.

Russian rescuers, meanwhile, also pulled a survivor from debris, becoming the first foreign team to find a person alive.

Chinese rescuers separately saved four men – aged up to 69 — along with a 31-year-old woman. The woman, Bian Gangfen, in Deyang city, and two of the men were rescued after 124 hours in the rubble.

The Russians located their survivor — the sixth of the day — in a dormitory building in Dujiangyan city, Xinhua said.