A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in Venezuela, after the devastating earthquake on June 24. He remained trapped for eight days and rescuers, the BBC reports, worked for more than a hundred hours to save him after locating him among the rubble of a collapsed building, a shopping center car park in La Guaira. The British network tells the story of Hernán Gil, located by rescuers under 140 tons of rubble. Teams from Venezuela, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Portugal, and the United States contributed to the rescue operations, the BBC reported. Only last night were they able to establish visual contact with the man.
Ricardo Arias of the Costa Rican Red Cross confirmed that the man "is doing well," despite everything. A Chilean firefighter described the operation as "undoubtedly the most complex and technically difficult ever faced." The earthquake, according to the official toll, caused at least 2,295 deaths.
