Harrowing rescue efforts in Haiti
Updated on 16 January 2010
Efforts to reach survivors have been far from straightforward as Sarah Smith reports from Port-au-Prince.
Across Haiti's devastated capital and countless bodies are being buried in mass graves and thousands more are still believed to be trapped in the ruins.
But rescue teams have managed to reach a few survivors.
Two-year-old Mia was trapped under the rubble of her school - she was there for nearly 72 hours. A team of British firefighters cut her from the rubble.
They could hear her cries, so they knew she was alive. But they were using makeshift tools - their thermal imaging kit and other tools still had not arrived on the scene.
Finally she was freed to sounds of applause. The doctors checked her over and amazingly, she was more or less unharmed. Relief for one mother but thousands of others in Haiti can only pray and hope.
