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Rescuers battle to unearth Venezuelan man eight days after quakes
Key takeaways
- “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.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela: Hundreds of rescuers struggled Thursday to unearth a 43-year-old Venezuelan man trapped for eight days under a collapsed building after twin earthquakes killed almost 2,300 people, an AFP reporter witnessed.
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.
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