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, News.Az reports, citing TRT World.
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On Thursday, Gil was brought out on a stretcher after a painstaking operation to extract him from the collapsed 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, said as rescuers worked to rescue him.
Teams from seven countries — Venezuela, Chile, the United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico — worked around the clock over three days to reach Gil.
They provided him with more than ten litres of water to keep him hydrated via a hose and installed a tube to provide him with oxygen.
