Woman and teenage boy rescued five days after Nepal quake
- 9 years ago
Five days after Nepal’s earthquake, a double miracle has occurred.
A young woman has been pulled from the rubble in Kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was also plucked from the debris by rescuers.
A teen boy was rescued from a building that collapsed around him in the #NepalEarthquake. http://t.co/6SHa1ZyTTN pic.twitter.com/BRo0Ji7rIV— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 30, 2015
Now being treated at an Israeli field hospital, Pemba Tamang, 15, is recovering remarkably well.
While buried alive, he says he survived by eating from a dish of butter he had discovered in the darkness.
Pemba, now receiving food and fluids, didn’t think he would live.
“Sometimes I felt aftershocks and I could hear the sound of bulldozers,” he said.
“All of a sudden I saw light and I was conscious. I thought I was hallucinating.”
Amid the debris of the mountain village of Katteldada near the epicentre of Saturday’s massive quake, there is growing frustration over the time it is taking
A young woman has been pulled from the rubble in Kathmandu just hours after a teenage boy was also plucked from the debris by rescuers.
A teen boy was rescued from a building that collapsed around him in the #NepalEarthquake. http://t.co/6SHa1ZyTTN pic.twitter.com/BRo0Ji7rIV— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 30, 2015
Now being treated at an Israeli field hospital, Pemba Tamang, 15, is recovering remarkably well.
While buried alive, he says he survived by eating from a dish of butter he had discovered in the darkness.
Pemba, now receiving food and fluids, didn’t think he would live.
“Sometimes I felt aftershocks and I could hear the sound of bulldozers,” he said.
“All of a sudden I saw light and I was conscious. I thought I was hallucinating.”
Amid the debris of the mountain village of Katteldada near the epicentre of Saturday’s massive quake, there is growing frustration over the time it is taking