Theyhad alsofound13bodies, butmany more remain beneath the30-foot pile ofconcrete, brick, and plaster, as the slightodorofputrefaction hanging over the site testifies.
It is perhaps this painstaking, time-consuming, brick-by-brick search for bodies that has allowed the rescuers to find a woman alive in the rubble on Friday, 12 days after the last survivor was found and 17 days after the building went down.