Rescuers pull out survivor from rubble 5 days after Nepal earthquake

Published December 04, 2015

A Nepalese teenage boy is rushed to hospital on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and US rescuers alive from the debris of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo / Niranjan Shrestha) (The Associated Press)

Rescuers have pulled a teenage boy alive from the rubble of a Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago during Nepal's massive earthquake.

Waiting crowds roared and cheered as the boy, who has not been identified, was carried out in a stretcher. His face was covered in dust, and medics had put an IV drop into his arm. A blue brace had been placed around his neck. He appeared stunned, and his eyes blinked in the sunlight.

A USAID team had been working at the scene overnight to try to free the boy.

Andrew Olvera, head of a USAID disaster response team, said before the rescue that the boy was not very deep, but he was trapped between two collapsed floors of the building.

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