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They survived on tomatoes and water for five days

A bottle of water and a few tomatoes is all that kept a young couple and their six-year-old daughter going till they were miraculously brought alive from the rubble of their house in Gandhidham Tuesday after more than 100 hours under the debris.

40-year-old Chitra, her husband Silveira Chelappan and their daughter were in the kitchen of their house when the building collapsed. They found a safe haven in a cavity and survived the ordeal on a bottle of water and some tomatoes before they were rescued on the fifth day.

Chitra, the first to be taken out, said from her hospital bed, "We survived by giving solace to each other in the darkness and sharing water and the tomatoes that we had."

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