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Ten years since the deadly Christchurch quake, which devastated the city on February 22, Dr Lydia Johns Putra tells Lisa Owen about her experience of saving the life of Brian Coker. He was trapped in the collapsed Pyne Gould building. She amputated his legs with a pocket-knife and hacksaw. — Read on http://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018784367/doctor-recalls-amputation-with-pocket-knife-in-canterbury-quake