A three-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble six days after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, a Jordanian rescue team has said.
The child, named as Klieber Morán, was pulled from wreckage in La Guaira state, interim President Delcy Rodríguez said. Rodríguez described the child’s rescue as a “source of hope for our people”.
It comes as UN warned that tens of thousands of people were urgently in need of food and shelter.
The death toll from last week’s quakes – with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 – has risen to 1,943 with more than 10,000 people injured and tens of thousands more unaccounted for.
The massive tremors probably damaged or destroyed 58,870 buildings, according to an initial assessment of satellite data from Nasa.
The Jordanian civil defence said Klieber had been given first aid treatment, taken to a hospital and his vital signs were good. He was being treated in the capital Caracas, Venezuelan Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said.