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Thirty-three people were extracted from the debris Friday, four days after the seism in Sichuan (south-western), the rescuers continuing their research with the hope of new miracles, announced the agency China Nouvelle.
In the only district of Beichuan, touched hard by the seism, 33 people were released alive in the course of the day, among them a child found under the ruins of its college in the town of Beichuan (even name that the district), according to the agency.
The civil soldiers and volunteers who excavated the tons of concrete and scrap thought of being able to save other survivors, voices calling the Help! being still perceptible under the debris of the school.

" There are good lucks so that we can the secourir" , one of the rescuers said, quoted by the media. " To give up is a word excluded from our vocabulaire" , he added.
Chinese president Hu Jintao, made Friday in the disaster area, and which directed teams of first-aid workers, ensured: " Where there is a net of hope, we will not save our efforts to save those which are still bloqués".
Among the 33 survivors found in this district of Beichuan, new China added that a great number had been hospitalized.
A 46 year old survivor, Peng Zhijun, told to have succeeded in holding during these four days under debris with his cigarettes, of the paper napkins and by drinking its urine, paid new China.
Friday with Beichuan, the rescuers also found two people buried together during 95 hours in the ruins of a building of offices, always according to new China.
And a 23 year old nurse was left alive the debris of a hospital, according to the same source.
President Hu informed that the helps had entered " in the phase more cruciale".
The seism magnitude 7,9 struck Monday at the beginning of afternoon, at one hour when all the offices and schools were crammed.
The government started to prepare the population by giving for the first time Thursday an estimate of more than 50.000 dead.