News24 | WATCH | Hope as death toll rises to 14: How faint sound led to rescue from under the rubble

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At about 10:10 on Saturday, amid the chaos and destruction at the site of the collapsed building in George, a faint voice pierced through the piles of concrete.

Advanced medical rescue paramedic Jetreu Jacobs said he could hear something - a sign of life.

Jacobs called out to the unseen survivor and asked him to knock against the concrete slabs.

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