A boy aged 11 was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building three days after the severe earthquake in Venezuela, according to a report by the president's office. The rescue adds to the ongoing search-and-recovery effort, with the number of missing previously estimated in the tens of thousands.
An 11-year-old boy was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela on Sunday, three days after Thursday's severe earthquake, the president's office announced. The rescue follows an earlier US-led effort in which American teams recovered an infant from the debris, as The Zioneer reported earlier Sunday.
Venezuelan authorities have yet to provide updated figures on the number of dead and missing since the quake struck on Thursday. Unconfirmed estimates cited by Israeli media on Sunday placed the number of missing at 68,000. The boy's rescue — the first reported survivor extraction in three days — marks a rare bright spot in what has been described as one of the largest natural-disaster rescue operations in the region.
The US has dispatched rescue teams and pledged aid; Vice President Delcy Rodríguez confirmed Thursday that foreign teams were en route. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the US had 'hit [Venezuela] so hard' on oil sanctions but also celebrated recovery efforts. The full scope of the disaster remains unclear as international teams continue to arrive.
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