Rescuers pulled a 3-year-old boy alive from the rubble of the devastating Venezuela earthquake, six days after the disaster, according to unconfirmed reports circulated in Israeli and international media. The child is the latest survivor found amid a wide recovery effort that has already yielded several rescues in recent days.
A three-year-old boy was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela, six days after the severe earthquake struck the country, according to reports circulating in Israeli and international media on Tuesday evening. The rescue is the latest in a string of survivor extrications that have drawn continued international attention.
The rescue follows a series of such operations that The Zioneer has tracked over recent days: the extrication of an 11-year-old boy three days after the quake (June 28), a father and his child after more than four days (June 29), and a 106-hour rescue of a man named Aaron Levy Cantio announced by interim president Delcy Rodríguez (June 29). U.S. rescue teams were also involved in pulling a baby from the rubble, as reported on June 28.
The boy's condition has not yet been reported, and the exact location of the rescue remains unconfirmed. The number of missing after the earthquake was previously estimated by some sources at 68,000, though that figure has not been independently verified.
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