Rescuers pulled a newborn baby from the rubble of a collapsed building 32 hours after twin earthquakes struck a Venezuelan coastal community.
In video uploaded on social media Friday, rescuers labouring under a spotlight atop collapsed masonry pulled the infant out to cheers late Friday in the hardest-hit city of La Guaira, north of the capital Caracas.
The video shows them handing the baby, wrapped in a comforter, from one person to another, then wiping the youngster tenderly with tissues.
The infant is only 18 days old and was not hurt after being locked for 32 hours, said Andreina Quintero, the user who posted the video to social media.
The mother of the child was recovered an hour later.
A follow-up video was later posted by Quintero on Friday showing the mother lying in a hospital bed with a medical staff telling her that the baby did not appear to have any damage.
Then the medic suggests the mother saved the infant by shielding the youngster with her body or something else.
At least 920 people were killed and others injured or missing after two successive earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 on Wednesday.
The twin earthquakes in Venezuela, which killed about 1,000 people and left tens of thousands missing, could have affected close to seven million people, the United Nations assessed on Saturday.
The UN migration agency said it had reviewed available population and damage statistics and decided that “up to 6.76 million could be affected” by the devastating earthquakes that devastated Venezuela on 24th June.
The forecasts, which include up to two million people in Caracas alone, “highlight the potentially enormous humanitarian impact of the disaster,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
In La Guaira north of Caracas, entire buildings have fallen apart after the twin quakes.
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