People nearby heard her screams after the shaking stopped and removed the cinder blocks entrapping her by hand.

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By 7 a.m. all that remained of the building was a metal frame and some charred cinder blocks.

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When Savickas was three years old, his grandmother found him in her back yard, building a fort out of cinder blocks.

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Cinder blocks were scattered across the ground like children's toys.

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Barcelona's Mobile World Congress may have formed the backbone for this week's news but there was also notable news elsewhere -- like the fact that Boston Dynamics' upgraded quadruped robot can now throw cinder blocks.

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