In a truly miraculous turn of events, an 84-year-old paralysed woman was pulled alive from the wreckage of her home, three days after a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Indonesia's Flores island. Paulina Pobi had been trapped beneath the collapsed bamboo walls of her residence since Saturday, remaining undiscovered because her family mistakenly believed she had already been evacuated to a shelter. It wasn't until they returned to search the ruins on Tuesday that they finally located her. Despite enduring days without food or water, local officials reported that she was remarkably uninjured, though weakened by her ordeal.

The earthquake, which has left at least 73 people dead and displaced nearly 60,000 residents, continues to cause significant distress as over 3,000 aftershocks rattle the region. With many survivors too frightened to return to their damaged homes, relief efforts are in full swing, with authorities delivering hundreds of tonnes of essential supplies, including medicine and food. Indonesia’s frequent seismic activity is a result of its location on the "Ring of Fire," a volatile zone known for intense volcanic and tectonic movement that has historically brought devastating consequences to the archipelago.