Venezuelan daily El Nacional reported on the 6th (local time) that four survivors were dramatically rescued 11 days after a series of earthquakes.
According to the report, rescue authorities rescued four survivors from the rubble of a building in the Caraballeda area of La Guaira state at about 9 p.m. on the 5th.
The earthquake on the 24th of last month struck six northern states, including the capital Caracas, with La Guaira state on the coast suffering the heaviest damage.
The survivors were rescued a full 267 hours after the earthquake. That is nearly four times the golden time (72 hours) commonly regarded in disaster medicine as the survival threshold.
The survivors, identified as one young man, one young woman, and two children, received first aid at the scene and were immediately loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital.
Despite this dramatic rescue, the death toll continues to rise.
According to the Venezuelan government, at least 3,342 people have died and 16,700 have been injured in the series of earthquakes.