A team of international rescuers pulled a man alive from a collapsed building in Venezuela on Thursday, eight days after the country was rocked by twin 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes.
Hernan Gil, 43, was working as a night watch guard at an seven-story building in Catia La Mar when part of it collapsed, trapping him in his security booth beneath the rubble.
"When we found him, he asked us not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn’t make it," Costa Rican rescuer Minyar Collado told the Associated Press.
But, she added, "We were never going to leave him there."Hernan Gil spent eight days trapped under rubbleImage: Costa Rican Red Cross/REUTERS
Gil's wife, Gusbimar Gonzalez, was elated by the news on Thursday.
