A baby has been rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela, some 32 hours after twin earthquakes struck the South American country.
The rescue took place in the coastal city of La Guaira, one of the areas hardest hit by the disaster.
Social media videos showed emergency responders pulling the baby from the debris before handing the child to a man believed to be the father.
The baby’s mother was also rescued alive from the collapsed building shortly afterwards, AFP reported.
Tom Fletcher, the United Nations humanitarian chief, told AFP that more than 50,000 people remain unaccounted for after two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela within a minute of each other on Wednesday evening.
The earthquakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, struck less than a minute apart while many Venezuelans were at home observing a national holiday.
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