An office worker told Tuesday how she had probably saved her life by ducking under her desk when an earthquake toppled her building in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Anne Voss rang Australia's Seven television network to tell of her predicament and that of an estimated 30 fellow office staff in the mangled Pyne Gould Corp Building, DPA reported.
"Oh, that's good. Thank God," the Australian woman said when told by phone from Sydney that dozens of rescuers were burrowing towards her.
"I was sitting at my desk, and I went under my desk and the ceiling collapsed on top of the desk," Voss said. "So I'm sort of squashed underneath. I haven't been able to move really."
Voss said she could hear co-workers calling out for help but was unable to move from beneath the desk that she thought had saved her life.
"I can hear them at times yelling for help, but we're just stuck waiting. It's really hard," she said.
She told Seven that she was injured but did not know how severely.
"I know I'm bleeding and I can feel the ground is quite wet," she said. "My hand, I don't know if I've cut it. I don't know what I've done. I can't see."
With her free hand, she said she was able to make calls out and had spoken with her son and other family members in Australia.