Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleA Venezuelan earthquake survivor, Hernán Gil, was rescued after being trapped under rubble for eight days. Gil, a security guard, became trapped on 24 June when the ground collapsed at Galerías Playa Grande shopping centre in La Guaira. He survived beneath approximately 140 tonnes of rubble because his small security cabin remained largely intact, providing a crucial air pocket. A paramedic heard his calls for help on Sunday, 28 June, initiating the rescue operation. Footage shows the moment Gil was freed by emergency teams after days of digging. In fullSecurity guard’s miraculous escape as he is pulled from Venezuela earthquake rubbleMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

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…

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

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

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...

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.

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…

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.

El vigilante Hernán Gil permaneció ocho días atrapado bajo los escombros de una caseta de seguridad de La Guaira tras los terremotos en Venezuela

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

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Hernan Gil was brought out on a stretcher as elated rescuers cheered and hugged each other. He was loaded into a waiting ambulance and driven away.

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.

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

Search and rescue teams from El Salvador and Chile on Thursday pulled Hernan Alberto Gil from the ruins of the nine-storey Galerias Playa Grande. | World News