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Toddler rescued from rubble six days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes
The boy, identified as Klieber Moran, was the only reported survivor found on the sixth day of the ongoing search
TL;DR
- A child, Klieber Moran, was rescued six days after devastating twin earthquakes in Venezuela.
- Moran was found in the Los Corales Garden 1 building in La Guaira state.
- Rescuers from Jordan were involved in the extraction.
- The earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, struck last Wednesday.
- The child, aged two or three, is receiving medical care.
- A shipment of 47 metric tons of humanitarian supplies from Unicef has arrived.
- The supplies include emergency health kits for urgent medical care.
- The government reports over 1,900 deaths and 10,000 injuries, though experts suggest this is an undercount.
- Nearly 59,000 buildings are estimated to be damaged or destroyed by Nasa.
- Unicef states that 680,000 children require humanitarian assistance nationwide.