American rescue teams have pulled a live infant from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela, Israeli journalist Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) reports. In the same update, a circus is cited putting the number of missing at 68,000 — a figure that matches unconfirmed estimates the Desk previously reported.
Overnight, US search-and-rescue teams in Venezuela succeeded in extracting a living infant from the debris of a building destroyed in the catastrophic earthquakes that struck on Thursday, June 25. The report, carried by Israeli journalist Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom) on his the source, also cites a circus source stating that 68,000 people remain missing — a figure consistent with the unverified estimate The Zioneer reported earlier on Sunday morning (01:51 Jerusalem).
This is the first confirmed extraction of a survivor by American forces, underscoring the scale of the international rescue effort now involving at least 16 countries, as The Zioneer previously noted in a bulletin on Saturday night. The infant's rescue adds a rare positive note amid the devastation, though the official death toll — last pegged by unverified sources at nearly 1,000 — remains unknown. The exact location of the rescue was not specified in the report.
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