"A woman has been brought to hospital in Muzaffarabad today who remained buried under the rubble of her home since the October 8 earthquake," doctor Hafeez, who only gave his first name, told the private GEO television.

"She is unconscious and kept in the intensive care unit and we hope that she will survive, inshallah," Hafeez said.

"She had been fighting with death in a dark cavity under the rubble. It is a miracle," the doctor said.

The villagers who dug out the woman said pieces of rotten food were found in the hole, and that she might have survived by drinking rain water, Hafeez said.

Officials were not immediately available to confirm the report.

The October 8 quake has killed more than 73,000 people and left around 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and parts of the country's North West Frontier Province.

All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.