Almost a whole day after a building collasped in India, a four-year-old boy was pulled out alive from the debris where he was buried by Rescuers.
There were loud cheers on Tuesday, August 25, as the boy was pulled out hours after the five-storey apartment block collapsed, burying up to 70 people.
The incident which occurred in the western town of Mahad, south of Mumbai took place very late on Monday, August 24.
It required three disaster-response teams and sniffer dogs to work through the night, combing tin sheets, twisted metal and broken bricks in search of survivors.
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Video footage of the rescue effort showed onlookers applauding and cheering as the child was pulled from the wreckage and hauled onto a stretcher.
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Spokesman Sachidanand Gawde, of National Disaster Response Force, told reporters emergency workers had so far retrieved the bodies of two victims in addition to the little boy who survived the collapse
Earlier, a local official told news agencies that rescue workers had pulled more than 60 people alive from the rubble.
Below is a video showing the moment the boy was pulled out alive.
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