After being trapped for eight days beneath the rubble of a collapsed shopping centre, 43-year-old security guard Hernan Alberto Gil Flores was pulled out alive on Thursday following a painstaking rescue operation that lasted more than 100 hours.

A 43-year-old Venezuelan security guard, Hernán Gil, was rescued alive on Thursday after eight days trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed in Catia La Mar, in La…

CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela: Hundreds of rescuers were working late Wednesday to save a 43-year-old Venezuelan man who has survived for a week under the ruins of a seven-story…

Hernan Gil, 43-year-old security guard, brought out from the collapsed 7-story building where he worked after painstaking operation.

Hernan Gil, a 43-year-old security guard, is trapped inside his booth under the building where he worked in Catia La Mar.

Hundreds of rescuers struggled to unearth a 43-year-old Venezuelan man trapped for eight days under a collapsed building after twin earthquakes killed almost 2300 people, an AFP…

Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced Thursday after pulling a 43-year-old man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days...

Emergency workers are trying to pull a survivor from under the rubble of a nine-story building in Venezuela in a “miraculous” rescue operation eight days after the devastating…

Rescuers pulled a man from under the rubble of a nine-story building in Venezuela in a “miraculous” operation eight days after the devastating earthquakes that hit the country.

Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not survive

Rescue crews pulled a man from the rubble of a collapsed mall more than one week after a pair of devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela.

Hernán Alberto Gil Flores was buried under a collapsed shopping centre parking lot in La Guaira

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More than 2,200 people killed in tremors that damaged tens of thousands of buildings across north of country

Hernan Alberto Gil Flores had been trapped in a collapsed basement for eight days under mounds of rubble at the collapsed Galerias Playa Grande shopping centre

Rescuers in Venezuela have pulled Hernán Gil alive from a collapsed building's security booth eight days after the devastating June 24 earthquakes.

CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela (AP) – Rescuers pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement early Thursday, ending a grueling days-long operation that became a…

A 43 year old man has been pulled from the rubble of a collapsed shopping centre after being trapped for eight days after earthquakes in Venezuela.

A man was rescued alive after eight days trapped under rubble of a nine-story building in La Guaira, Venezuela, after two earthquakes hit the area.

A 43-year-old man was pulled alive from rubble in Venezuela eight days after deadly twin earthquakes. Rescuers celebrate this miracle amid rising death tol

Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores had been trapped in the collapsed basement of a shopping centre in La Guaira since June 24.