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  • Rescuers clear snow and rubble from a house flattened by an avalanche in Restelica, Kosovo, on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (Associated Press Television News)

    9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child pulled out alive

    Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.

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  • Col. Shemsi Syla, a spokesman for the Kosovo Security Force, said the girl was discovered in the ruins, buried under 33 feet of snow, when officers heard her voice and the ringing of a cellphone.

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