1 of 5 | Venezuelan army soldiers ride motorcycles as rescue teams search for victims Saturday amid debris of a demolished building after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Venezuela and other regions in the Caribbean in La Guaira, Venezuela. Photo by Jonathan Lanza/UPI | License Photo
June 28 (UPI) -- Rescue workers pulled two 11-year-old boys out of the rubble of collapsed buildings Sunday, days after two strong earthquakes hit Venezuela, killing hundreds, authorities announced.
The two boys were found in the wreckage of separate buildings.
One of the boys, identified simply as Moises, was found under about 10 feet of rubble in La Guaira state. Rescue workers shared video clips of them pulling the boy out from the building with a bandage covering his eyes from the glare of the sun after spending more than 80 hours in the dark under the wreckage.
"The way the structure collapsed created a pocket of space that sheltered him, and he sustained no injuries," firefighter Nelson Quintin told The New York Times.
