Venezuelan man rescued from rubble 8 days after deadly quakes: ‘truly a miracle’

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In Venezuela, rescuers successfully saved a 43-year-old man from the rubble eight days after deadly twin earthquakes that caused nearly 2,300 deaths and many missing persons. The rescue operation was hailed as a miracle amid the ongoing disaster recovery efforts.

Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced on Thursday after pulling a 43-year-old man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes. With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil after so long under the rubble was greeted as a miracle. Gil was brought out on a stretcher after a painstaking operation to extract him from the collapsed seven-storey building where he...