Soon their water supply ran out. Chiang Kou-ming the strongest o the three saw how after days of suffering first one, then the other pf her relatives died. She dragged their bodies under the stair that led to the top floor. Then she awaited her death. In the anguish of thirst, yet toa fearful to venture out, she said, she had prayed to Tien Lanyu, God of Water, and he had sent rain that night which leaked into her room through the badly damaged tiles. She collected it and stored what she did not drink for future us Days and weeks p: Forty days after her last relative had died, she thought she heard footsteps, she cried for help as best she could, until she had drawn the attention of the police. The girl maintained that she had been there for four months until her supply of sugar, dates and water were exhausted. Her body by that time was so emaciated and the way of escape so completely blocked by debris, that nothing but her voice to call attention offered any hope. She cried long and as loud as her strength Decorative
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