More Indian Quake Survivors; Aid Floods In

Jan. 28 -- After finding several people still alive under rubble, exhausted rescue workers using everything from bulldozers to their bare hands clawed through ruins today hoping more survivors could be found.

Survivors found in mountain of rubble

Rescuers say that with the right conditions, lack of injuries and a possible water supply, a person could survive in the rubble for several days.

But even as hope spread, more than 6,000 people were confirmed dead throughout the western state of Gujarat, the worst hit by Friday's quake.

Officials estimate the final death toll could be as high as 15,000, with thousands more injured and many more still buried beneath the rubble left by India's worst earthquake in half a century.

The quake hit India as the country was preparing to celebrate its 51st Republic Day. The holiday meant most people were home with their families, raising the death toll considerably, officials said.

Following the Sound of Survivors

In Bhuj, a desert city of 150,000 people and closest to the epicenter, more than 1,500 bodies have been found so far.

Today soldiers followed the faint sounds of survivors as they continued their digging through debris and ruins using everything from drills, cranes to pick hammers and often their bare hands.

Digging in one mountain of rubble, air force troops and police followed the sounds of a baby crying for almost 30 hours, shouting with joy when they made eye contact with the 18-month-old infant and her mother. The child, her pulse week, was rushed to an air force hospital. Her mother died before rescuers could reach her.

Just next door rescuers discovered a woman named Das who had been trapped in bed with the corpses of her husband and young daughter. her face was purple from lack of circulation and her head bloated, but rescuers talked to her, giving her water and biscuit as they chipped away at a hole in the wall of her sunken bedroom.

In Anjar, a town of about 25,000 people 30 miles southeast of Bhuj, rescue workers unearthed a three year old girl in a narrow lane where 400 school children and 50 teachers marching in a Republic Day parade were trapped when the quake hit.