Hundreds of rescuers raced Thursday to save a 43-year-old man trapped beneath a collapsed building for eight days after twin earthquakes devastated Venezuela, killing nearly 2,300 people.
An international rescue team inched closer to Hernan Gil, a security guard buried inside his booth under the seven-story building where he worked in Catia La Mar, a coastal area almost entirely razed to the ground in the June 24 catastrophe.
"This is truly a miracle," Gil's wife, Gusbimar Gonzalez, told AFP.
"I'm completely amazed because it's the first time I've seen so many countries come together like this to save a single person," she said.
Rescue teams from seven countries – Venezuela, Chile, the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico – have been working around-the-clock over the past three days to reach him.
